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How do antibodies protect your body against disease when exposed to a virus?
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∙ 12y ago
Each antibody is made to target certain antigens (disease or virus). They then would destroy them. The antibodies stay in the body so that if the antigen attacks again, the antibodies would already be there to destroy them.
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How active vaccination protect the body against disease?
Active vaccination produces antibodies against the particular organism. These antibodies kill the invading pathogen and protect the body against the disease.
What is the condition in which antibodies protect a person from disease?
Antibodies protect people from disease because they are special defenders designed to fight a particular virus. Vaccines introduce small amounts of the virus into the body so it can build up antibodies against the disease.
manufactured by the body to help protect you from disease?
Antibodies
How is the body's reaction to a vaccine similar to its reaction when it is attacked by a virus?
The body reacts to a vaccine by producing antibodies to protect against the disease.
What body parts protect you from disease?
the lymphatic system Antibodies are proteins in the blood that fight disease. -DLW
How do antigens protect the body from diseases?
Antigens do not protect the body from disease. Antibodies protect the body from many diseases.
How does injecting someone with a killed bacteria vaccine protect someone from getting that disease?
There is nothing like killed disease. You have the killed microorganisms. These killed microorganisms are injected to the person. That gives rise to formation of the antibodies. These antibodies protect the person from the attack of the live microorganism.
What is it that your body produces in response to vaccines to protect you against viruses?
Antibodies.As antibodies are produced, the body keeps a "record" of them and you will have developed an immunity to that specific virus in people with an otherwise healthy immune system. See more information below on how the immune system works.
Why do babies need vaccinations?
It is important to give children vaccines because in the womb babies receive special proteins called antibodies from their mother that help fight many serious illnesses but after his birth immunity gradually disappears and the baby needs outside protection against illnesses. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Babies that are breastfed from the beginning continue receiving antibodies from the mother (especially while she is still producing colostrum) that protect against the disease organisms she has been exposed to (or been vaccinated for) and developed immunity against. But vaccinations allow the baby to make its own antibodies without having to actually catch the disease, and these antibodies will last long after any provided from the mother have degraded and been lost..
Explain how vaccines help in combating diseases?
Immunity to a disease is achieved through the presence of antibodies to that disease in a person's system. Antibodies are proteins produced by the body to neutralize or destroy toxins or disease-carrying organisms. Antibodies are disease-specific. For example, measles antibody will protect a person who is exposed to measles disease, but will have no effect if he or she is exposed to mumps. There are two types of immunity: active and passive. Active Immunity Active immunity results when exposure to a disease organism triggers the immune system to produce antibodies to that disease. Exposure to the disease organism can occur through infection with the actual disease (resulting in natural immunity), or introduction of a killed or weakened form of the disease organism through vaccination (vaccine-induced immunity). Either way, if an immune person comes into contact with that disease in the future, their immune system will recognize it and immediately produce the antibodies needed to fight it. Active immunity is long-lasting, and sometimes life-long.
Vaccines can help protect against viruses by triggering the production of?
antibodies
How does producing antibodies protect us from disease?
Antibodies are specific. This means that they "match" the infesting disease (antigen). The antigen causes the immune system to make the antibodies which will attack the disease. Without the antibodeis, the body will not be able to fight off and destroy the disease.
