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There are approximately 26 standard vaccines used in the
U.S and about 30,000 known worldwide diseases. Vaccines
have successfully contained 7 major diseases, but could
potentially contain more with everyones help.
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Vaccinations have been around since the mid-late 1700s with
the Englishman who started this change in medicine, Edward
Jenner. Jenner invented the first vaccine for smallpox.
Smallpox is almost unheard of nowadays, but back in the day
it took the lives of millions.
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Vaccinations were invented to keep people from getting sick.
And to do so doctors would cut the arm of the healthy
patient, gather pus or bodily fluid from the infected patients
and then put what they gathered into the healthy patient and
stitch them back up.
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This would be such a small amount of the disease in the
healthy body that our immune system would have enough
time to fight off the disease and create antibodies to prevent
the disease to cause more harm.
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Today a very similar process is perform ed, but now you get
immunizations in the form of shots. Ac cording to stephanie
pappas, Vaccines are made of dead o r weakened antigens they
cant cause an infection, but the imm une system still sees them as
an enemy and produces antibodies in response. After the threat
has passed, many of the antibodies w ill break down, but immune
cells called memory cells remain in t he body.
