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Q: What is a small dose of weakened pathogens that make you immune to disease called?
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What consists of pathogens that have been weakened or killed but can trigger the immune system?

eons


The preparation of dead or weakened pathogens that causes the immune system to produce anitbodies?

vaccine


If we are surround by pathogens why don't we die of disease?

Because our bodies have evolved to defend ourselves from these pathogens. We have an "immune system".


Which is your body and rsquos ability to destroy pathogens that it has previously encountered before these pathogens can cause disease?

Immunity.


What disease causes the body to attack pathogens and its normal cells?

Auto-immune


How did disease help the Spanish conquer natives?

Diseases from Europe that the Spanish were immune to affected and weakened the natives.


What does the immune system normally do?

fight against illnesses


When does Aspergillus cause disease?

When Aspergillus does cause disease, however, it usually occurs in those individuals with weakened immune systems


How do viral infections in animals cause disease?

by a weakend immune system letting pathogens into the body.


A system of enzymes that is used to combat pathogens is called?

The Immune System.


The molecules on pathogens that enable the immune system to distinguish one kind of pathogen from another are called?

The molecules on pathogens that enable the immune system to distinguish one kind of pathogen from another are called antigens. Antibodies destroy pathogens by binding to the antigens on the pathogen.


How effective is the anthrax vaccine?

Medical studies show that the anthrax vaccine was safe and effective, vaccines use a system of injecting dead or weakened pathogens of the virus it is curing, that way the individual's immune systems B cells learn how to produce antibodies for that disease.