Vaccines Vs Toxoid Vaccines
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Vaccines are a method of priming the body to fight off a potential infection from many formerly dangerous and deadly diseases such as Polio and Measles essentially preventing them from ever getting sick. A vaccine is injected into a person to “teach” their immune system the proper response to prevent the infection from spreading throughout the body. Vaccines typically come in five varieties; Conjugate vaccines, inactivated vaccines, live, attenuated vaccines, subunit vaccines, and toxoid vaccines (CDC). Each one is slightly different in how it helps the body develop an immunity to several viruses or bacteria but the end goal of each vaccine is to help the body create the proper antibodies. Antigens are any substance that elicits an immune