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How do they work to produce immunity against specific diseases?
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When you get a disease and fight it off, your body produces specific antibodies for that disease, tiny organisms meant for that specific disease. While those antibodies remain in your system, you can't contract that same disease again.
Vaccinations are modified versions of the disease that they wish to produce immunity against. They produce a very toned-down effect of the actual disease, but cause your body to create the same antibodies, as if you'd had the real thing.
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What is positive immunity?
If a person's immune system is producing antibodies against a specific antigen, then that person has a positive or active immunity toward that antigen. If a person has merely been injected with antibodies but does not produce them, that is a passive immunity.
Process of immunity?
The process of immunity is to produce specific antibodies that bind to antigens on the surface of pathogens. =]
What do you exhibit when B cells encounter antigens and produce antibodies against them?
You exhibit Active Immunity when cells encounter anitgens and produce antibodies against them.
What bacterial diseases produce a non-specific illness that may produce a prolonged disability but is rarely fatal?
Tularemia
What type of immunity does inhaling a virus produce?
Active Immunity
What statement about the immune system is false?
Plasma cells proliferate and produce antibodies against an antigen during humoral immunity.
What helps you fight diseases?
In a broad sense, your immune system helps you fight disease.There are two parts to the immune system:Non-specific immunity + Specific immunity.Nonspecific immunityConsists of your skin, saliva, mucus, etc. Skin is the most important part in keeping diseases from entering your body. Saliva and mucus produce chemicals known as lysozomes which kill diseases.Specific immunityIf the disease gets past nonspecific immunity, specific immunity kicks in. It is sort of a long process but I will keep it short. First certain white cells identify the disease. This is so the body can recognize it if you get the same disease in the future. The next step is when the body releases cells which produce chemicals to kill the disease.Hope this helped.
Describe how the body's own defence system can provide natural immunity from diseases?
Basically the body prduces white blood cells which produce an anti-body which is the natural process of an immunity in the body.
What is inuculation?
To introduce a serum, vaccine, or antigenic substance into (the body of a person or animal), especially to produce or boost immunity to a specific diseaseRead more: inoculate
What bacterial diseases produces a non-specific illness that may produce a prolonged disability but is rarely fatal?
Tularemia
What does vaccines make us produce?
It makes immunoglobulins in our body. These help to prevent another attack of the same disease. The particular immunity to the specific infection is attained.
Why you should have inoculations?
Inoculations are important because they help protect against infectious diseases. They stimulate the immune system to produce antibodies and build immunity to specific diseases. This not only keeps individuals healthy but also helps to prevent the spread of diseases to others in the community.
