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Vaccines have been around for many years. But how does it work and what does it do to our body?
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1. In your own words, please explain what vaccines are?
2. What are some of the common vaccines that you know?
3. What do you think about vaccines? Are they helpful or harmful?
4. Do you agree that some vaccines can cause illnesses?
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1. In your own words, please explain what vaccines are?
It is a small piece of a virus or bacteria that it is introduced intentionally in the body, for it to be able to create antibodies against it.
2. What are some of the common vaccines that you know?
There are some vaxines that are given to infants like the measles or the chickenpox vaxin. Others need to be provided anually, like the flu vaxin. Finally, some of them are only needed if you travel to specific areas, like the yellow fever vaxin.
3. What do you think about vaccines? Are they helpful or harmful?
I think that the vaccination is a great scientific progress,. Thanks to it lots of diseases have been completely eradicated.
4. Do you agree that some vaccines can cause illnesses?
No, I don’t think so. Sometimes they can cause side effects for a few days, but in the long term they are very useful to prevent against diseases.
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The vaccines are a way of administering antibodies to fight viruses or bacteria. The body reacts in the same way as if it had the diseases and may have similar symptoms for hours or days but it allows to protect the body from possible future infections.
I know several vaccines because I have a son, he is 9 month old and he has recently had vaccines such a hepatitis, meningitis, chicken pox, measles, and many others.
Of course, I know about covid-19 vaccines and when I traveled to Thailand I was vaccinated against yellow fever and malaria.
I believe that vaccines are helpful for society, to improve live expectancy and for other countries they are essential for the survival of children. I think they are very necessary and after the pandemic we see that it is important to invest in public health and research to be able to react quickly to a pandemic situation.
As I mentioned earlier some people may react with disease-like symptoms but I believe they are not harmful but the opposite. The denialist school of thought harms people more than a vaccine.
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Vaccines are injections of dead or weak form of viruses, that produce antibodies in the organism to become immune and can defend itself when viruses attack.
Some of the vaccines I know are against chickenpox, hepatitis, polio or tetanus. The most recent vaccines that have appeared are those against Covid-19, because of which a lot of people died in beginning of 2020.
I have always hated vaccines, not because I’m afraid of needles, but I’m so apprehensive and I feel anxious when I think a harmful substance is being injected inside my body. However, I’m conscious that they are helpful to deal with viruses; I suffered so much when I became infected with Covid-19, although I had already 2 doses of vaccines, so I cannot imagine how I would have suffered if I wouldn’t had been vaccinated before.
However, it’s true that some people died or became ill when got this vaccine. I agree that some vaccines can cause illnesses, because as I said, after all, it is a harmful substance that is being injected inside the organism.
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1. In your own words, please explain what vaccines are?
The vaccines are preventive medicine, vacunated persons can produce antibodies that protect them, because the body becomes immune and limit the effects and development of the many diseases.
2. What are some of the common vaccines that you know?
The most common vaccines fight against the COVID19 and flu.
3. What do you think about vaccines? Are they helpful or harmful?
Vaccines are essentials, vaccines save the lives of millions of people and virtually eradicated many diseases, the people who are not vaccunated are unsupportive people
4. Do you agree that some vaccines can cause illnesses?
yes of course, this is the way for becomes immune, the body needs win the battle againts bacterias or viruses.
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1. In your own words, please explain what vaccines are? They are substances that allow your body to create antibodys to protect you from certain deseases.
2. What are some of the common vaccines that you know? I know the vaccines againts covid-19, yellow fever, thifus, hepatitis, flu…
3. What do you think about vaccines? Are they helpful or harmful? I think they are necessary to fight againts some deseases that before vaccines were mortal and thanks to them have been saved many lives.
4. Do you agree that some vaccines can cause illnesses? I think that they can cause some secundary effects like temperature or head ache but the benefits compense these few effects.
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1. In your own words, please explain what vaccines are?
Vaccines are substances used to boost the immune system and prevent serious and life-threatening diseases. Vaccines “teach” the body how to defend itself when microorganisms, such as viruses or bacteria, invade it.
2. What are some of the common vaccines that you know?
I know the vaccines against influenza, tetanus, hepatitis, measles, smallpox, typhus, polio, covid-19, yellow fever, malaria and chicken pox
3. What do you think about vaccines? Are they helpful or harmful?
In my opinion, vaccines together with antibiotics have been a great advance for humanity and have prevented millions of deaths.
4. Do you agree that some vaccines can cause illnesses?
Vaccines, like any other medical treatment, can cause adverse effects in a small percentage of the population, but the benefit they provide undoubtedly outweighs the potential risk that they may pose for a small percentage of people.
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1. In your own words, please explain what vaccines are?
The vaccines are substances like as dead or very weak form of a virus that are introduced in our bodies to produce antibodies and then the body becomes immune and can defend itself.
2. What are some of the common vaccines that you know?
I know these vaccines: hepatitis, cholera, flu, covid_19, yellow fever, rabies, and malaria.
3. What do you think about vaccines? Are they helpful or harmful?
I think that the vaccines are very helpful to prevent us from illness and diseases.
4. Do you agree that some vaccines can cause illnesses?
No, I don’t. The vaccines help us to eradicate illnesses.
If the vaccinates hadn’t existed, the deaths would have had higher.
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1. In your own words, please explain what vaccines are?
Vaccines are compounds with a dead or attenuated virus that when administered to a person let the body to produce antibodies against this virus which can attack it if there is an infection.
2. What are some of the common vaccines that you know?
Flu, Covid-19, measles. chicken pox, hepatitis, yellow fever.
3. What do you think about vaccines? Are they helpful or harmful?
I think they have been very helpful treating very infective diseases and eradicating some of them.
4. Do you agree that some vaccines can cause illnesses?
No, I do not agree and I think this perception has been very harmful in public heath because some people has stopped to vaccinate their children, increasing the incidence of some diseases that were very well controlled.
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1. Vaccines are dead or weak virus or bacteries that are inyected, taken by mouth or inhaled to protect the body against these virus/bacteries. The body becomes inmune so It can fight them off when It catch them.
2. The vaccines I know are the vaccines against COVID-19. Sadly these days, we have a master in this vaccines. I know as well, the vaccines against yellow Fiber, hepatitis, flu, etc
3. In my opinión, the vaccines are quite helpful. We need to take advantage of the scientific progress. Sometimes these vaccines have been the only solutionn to erradicate some mortal diseases. I think as well, that sometimes these vaccines are for the pharmateutical companies just another mean to get rich and probably they have the permanent cure. There Will be for sure some of these deseases that have been created by these companies just to get even richer.
4. I doy agree with that. It has no fundamental. Vaccines are created to fight against deseases. I can believe, as said, that these vaccines are fighting off diseases created in a laboratory but not cause deseases by themselves. It could cause secondary effects. They have to be always less critical than the desease itself if not, it has no se de.
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