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Scientists (virologists), first "grow" viruses (often in eggs) and then they can cause them to become inert and unable to make us sick, either by "killing" them or by weakening them significantly, usually chemically. Then the pharmacologists get these inert or weakened viruses from the virologists so they can add them to a medium to make them into a medication (vaccine) that is able to be introduced into our bodies, in a shot or sometimes in a nasal spray. These weakened or inert virus particles suspended in the administration medium won't make us feel sick, but they will cause our bodies to make defensive cells, since it will recognize them as substances that do not belong there.
This "artificial infection" simulates how we naturally would get immune to an infectious disease once we have had it. Except in the case of vaccines, we are tricking our body into thinking we have caught the actual virus when we haven't, so our immune system will start making attack cells. That way, if the same virus ever comes into our bodies again in the full strength of a natural virus going around a community, we will have already stored the pattern of the right cells that were able to destroy it and remove it from our bodies in the past. Since we don't have to take the time right then to build the pattern for these attack cells that are specific to that virus, we can get rid of it before it can even make us feel sick.
Our body "remembers" the pattern each time it makes cells that work to kill germs, so if that same germ comes along again, or even sometimes a similar one, our immune system wastes no time in getting rid of the invading organism because it knows already what will work.
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