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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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Undervaccinated children are likely to be children whose parents want them to receive health care but cannot afford it, whereas unvaccinated children are likely to be children of parents with vaccine doubt. Indeed, the strongest predictors of vaccine exemptions in California are median household income, higher percentage of white race in the population, and private schools.
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― Anti-Vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement
― Anti-Vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement
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Vaccines save lives. To prevent infections from spreading and affecting not just individuals, but also whole healthcare systems strained by outbreaks, it’s important that everyone who can be vaccinated is. Vaccination is our collective firebreak when outbreaks happen.
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― Vaccines For Dummies
― Vaccines For Dummies
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