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What are antibodies what do they do?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 10/31/2022

Antibodies are cells that help the immune system fight off virus and sometimes bacteria. Vaccines are created from the antibodies of viruses that host them. For example a flu vaccine is made of the antibodies of various flu viruses.

With the exception of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV, a typical virus only lasts only a couple of days and give off antibodies for your body to work with its white blood cells to fight infection.

When a person becomes ill even with a mild cold your body immidiatly creates anti bodys from the white blood cells. This anti bodys mould themselvs around the bad bacteria and engulf it. the white blood cells then know that if the same bacteria returns it can be faught off straight away.

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Lewis Treutel

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2y ago

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