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A vaccination is usually a dead virus that has been administered at a specific dosage to trigger the body to produce antibodies. As a result of this production, the body will recognize the same virus in the future and "attack" it and kill it before it can make the body sick.

A vaccine contains complete or partial microbes or the toxins they produce. It stimulates the immune system to raise antibodies against the antigens on the disease carrying organisms. A pathogen against which the body has been vaccinated alerts memory cells so causing the immune system to launch an instant defence.

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Vaccines give your body a little dose of whatever it needs to protect itself from so that when directly exposed to that, the body has already made antibodies to protect itself from it.

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