Staying Healthy
Are there any new vaccines?
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Fancy new technologies keep appearing in medicine. Are there any innovative new kinds of vaccines?All vaccines for infectious diseases stimulate the immune system to attack a specific microbe. The vaccine typically includes a killed or weakened microbe, or a protein from the microbe. When the vaccine enters the body, the immune system "sees" and remembers it. Then, if the real microbe enters the body later in life, the primed immune system attacks and eradicates it.
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