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What is the weakened agent of disease that can provide immunity for a particular disease?
That is called a vaccination.
The process of vaccination?
Vaccination is the process of attempting to confer artificial immunity on an individual organism by exposing the immune system to antigens of the pathogen being vaccinated against. Vaccination does not provide nearly as good protection as natural, or acquired immunity.
How does someone get artificial immunity?
a vaccination
What form of immunity is acquired through vaccination?
Artificially acquired active immunity.
Does vaccination against hepatitis B provide immunity for life?
Injections given on day 0, one month, six months gives immunity for five years. The booster is to be taken every five years there after.
What is an vaccination?
vaccination is a vaccine that stimulate your immune system to develop adaptive immunity to disease.
What are scientists doing or using smallpox for?
The treatment for smallpox was to get a vaccination.
An organism develops active immunity as a result of?
Producing antibodies in response to a vaccination
What immunity results when millions of memory b cells remain in the body?
Memory b cells provide long term immunity for a specific disease or antigen. As an example a vaccination for hepatitis A provides memory b cells that will attack the disease when it is present and remove it.
Derscribe the relationship between vaccination and immunity?
they both are used to protect the body from infection
What must a vaccination contain to make it effective in producing immunity?
A dead or inactive form of the disease.
What is herd vaccination?
Herd vaccination refers to when the majority of a population or commumity are vaccinated that it creates immunity against a specific disease that they were vaccinated for. It creates some safety for the nonvaccinated individuals since the majority of the group have developed immunity and are protected from contracting and spreading the disease to others.
