What is the difference between vaccine and antibiotic?

Answer 1

Antibiotics treat current infections. Vaccines create antibodies to deal with a future infection.

Answer 2

an antibiotic is used to help rid your body after you already have the infection. A vaccine is to prevent an infection from ever entering your body. Antibiotics basically fight off whatevers not supposed to be there after your already sick. Vaccines help your body build antibodies on its own to make your immune system tougher so you arent able to catch things as easily example - flu, small pox, ect.

Answer 3

The difference is simple:

Antibiotics is used to help strengthen your immune system and rid the area of harmful bacteria, while the vaccination is to prevent a disease from entering your system at all. But, there aren't vaccines for everything and antibiotics can cure VIRAL diseases, caused by viruses.

Answer 4

Anti means against. Bios means life. An antibiotic kills bacteria or viruses. Antibiotics do nothing for prevention from infection with the same organism again and can, in fact, interfere with the body producing active immunity from a disease.

Vaccines are intended to stimulate the body to produce active immunity by making antibodies to bacteria or viruses. Vaccines do not necessarily prevent the organism from entering the body but they teach the immune system to make antibodies to fight the organism. Antiviral drugs fight viruses. Most viruses are not independent organisms. They require a human cell to grow in. Bacteria are complete organisms. Most antibiotics are made to kill bacteria.

Answer 5

Vaccines are used to prevent specific infections by stimulating the immune system to create immunity against a particular pathogen, whereas antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections by killing or inhibiting the growth of bacteria. Vaccines are given before exposure to a pathogen, while antibiotics are used after an infection has occurred.

Answer 6

antibiotics kill germs and vaccines prevent you from getting sick from diseases

Answer 7

vaccine gives some virus resistence while antibiotics are used to cure bacterial infectiions

From F.S. (Nerd)