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Antibodies can attach to and render a virus unable to attach to your cells to infect them. If you get a preventive vaccination, your antibodies will get to work on this project much sooner and you may feel no symptoms at all.
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Antibodies are specific to each particular virus or other pathogen, and play a key role in the immune response to invading virus infections. The antibodies are created to be the perfect shape to block the virus from being able to attach to the cells. If unable to attach to the cell, the virus can not reproduce. See related questions below for more information about the immune response to viral infections.
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How do antibodies protect your body against disease when exposed to a virus?
Each antibody is made to target certain antigens (disease or virus). They then would destroy them. The antibodies stay in the body so that if the antigen attacks again, the antibodies would already be there to destroy them.
In the movie Outbreak why did they have to capture the host?
The monkey carried the antibodies that would cure the sick people with the virus.
How does the herpes virus that causes cold sores infect host cells differently than a cold virus would infect host cells?
The herpes that causes cold sores remains in the nervous system and is reactivated from time to time. The sore reappears at this time. A cold virus doesn't act this way in the nervous system. Once a person has a cold, that person makes enough antibodies so that the virus doesn't cause a cold again in that person.
Is H1N1 an antigen?
Yes, anything that triggers your immune system to have a response would be considered an antigen. H1N1 is a virus that causes influenza, and the detection of the presence of the virus will cause our immune systems to attack it. The immune system creates antibodies which can grab antigens to flag them as targets and disable them, which are then attacked and destroyed by other cells from the immune system. Once the body has developed antibodies to match the antigens of a particular invader , the pattern of those antibodies is stored by the immune system, and duplicates can be readily produced to grab that invader, if it or one like it, is detected again. That is what gives you immunity.
What antibodies does the HIV test for and why?
The HIV test tests for Human Immunodeficiency virus by using two different kinds of test; the ELISA and the Wester Blot tests. If there are HIV antibodies present, the a person would be diagnosed as having HIV.
What are the effect of virus on computers?
the effect of having a virus on your computer depends on which virus you have. some view your personal data like credit cards and stuff. some destroy your computer so it wouldn't work anymore and you would have to reinstall windows and all your data could be lost.
If your body is full of antibodies from a recent bout of chickenpox could you still come down with the flu?
Yes. The antibodies are very specific to each type of infection. So, the chicken pox antibodies would not be any protection against influenza viruses, and you could still come down with the flu if exposed to that virus. Ask the doctor who has treated the chicken pox when it would be okay to get a vaccination against the flu after the chicken pox.
What is the aim for a host cell for a virus?
A virally infected host cells' "desire" would be to create copies of the virus (as that is what the virus does to its host cell - turn its own mechanisms against itself). The host cell, once infected, can not do much to stop the spread of the virus internally. The external immune response would be to target that cell with antibodies and then have white blood cells phagocytize that cell to stop the spread of the virus anymore (same with free-floating viruses outside of cells).
Why is tetunus jab effective?
it helps fight diseases and helps prevent, fight and cure infections from a cut or graze or knee. Tetanus is an immunisation injection against the disease lockjaw (Tetanus). It works by purposefully infecting the recipient with dead cells of the Tetanus virus. This teaches the antibodies in the blood to recognise the virus and attack it. Once the antibodies have seen the virus they make a far more concerted effort to overwhelm and kill it off before it becomes a medical risk to the patient. The Tetanus virus works very quickly and would soon kill an un-immunised person, therefore as a safety precaution a booster is used to refresh the memory of the antibodies from time to time and make them much more aggressive toward the pathogen.
Can people be infected with HIV but not exhibit AIDS?
No. In order to have the disease known as AIDS (which is not a virus itself, but a syndrome), a person needs to be infected by the HIV virus. It is the HIV virus that causes AIDS.
What causes a cut to get red and puffy?
When it's infected. Usally a virus or some sort would enter through the cut.
What is the opposite of causes?
The antonym of the noun cause would be a result, or classically an effect.
