VACCINES

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A VACCINE AND A CURE:

• A cure is a medicine that temporarily kills the illness.
• A vaccine is a medication that, when given, you are highly no longer going to get the illness ever again.

VACCINES

• It saves your life.
• If one person isn't vaccinated and lives in an area where majority of the people is vaccinated, he or she will get a lesser chance of getting infected with the disease.

Vaccines were created to stop the vast spreading of deadly diseases around certain areas which could kill thousands of people.

THE VACCINE STORY
•In 1796, Edward Jenner found out that people who worked as farmer, in the rural areas, had cowpox, which had a mild effect on humans.

•Since they already had cowpox, they, sometimes, wouldn't contract smallpox. With this theory, he soon later took pus from a milkmaid with cowpox and injected it to an 8-year-old.

•He found out that that the 8-year-old didn't attract smallpox. Furthering his studies, he learnt that it was safe for children and adults. He later than introduced this theory to the world and years later, more vaccines were created to prevent even more diseases.

HOW DO VACCINES WORK?

• When you are infected by a diseases, say chicken pox, your white blood cells will activate and make antibodies. These antibodies locate and create a counter offensive.

When it succeeds in destroying the chicken pox, the antibodies don't die. They remain in the bloodstream. So if your body ever encounters the same type of disease, these antibodies would know how to react and would easily kill the disease before you fall ill.

Vaccines work by injecting inactive, dead or a less dangerous form of disease. They are either killed, heated or chemically modified to make them less deadly.

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• There are vaccines that can cure Polio, Chicken Pox, Measles, Diphtheria, Mumps and etcetera.
• Many more vaccines are being tested on animals in hopes to stop them. Such examples are, Dengue, HIV, Hookworm, Malaria and many more.

Vaccines has saved countless lives and is SCIENTIFICALLY proven to prevent diseases, however, there are just those handfuls that refuses to get their child vaccinated due to unbelievably ridiculous reasons.

However, sometimes you can still contract the disease and even if you are vaccinated. This is because the immune system simply doesn't respond fast enough or doesn't respond at all.

A FEW FACTS:

• Vaccines prevent more than 2.5 million deaths each year.
• Not all vaccines are given as shots. Some vaccines are given orally (syrup-like).
• Mercury is still used in SOME vaccines. Not all so don't be to worried.

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