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Vaccines
A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as a threat, destroy it, and to further recognize and destroy any of the microorganisms associated with that agent that it may encounter in the future. Vaccines can be prophylactic (to prevent or ameliorate the effects of a future infec
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We will see in a later chapter that religious exemptions are rarely based on the teachings of any religion and often invite parents to lie.
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― Anti-Vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement
― Anti-Vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement
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