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15 things you need to know about vaccines

Experts answer common questions about vaccines for children and adults. 1. How Do Vaccines Work? When you get sick, your body creates special proteins called antibodies to fight the infection. The next time you are exposed to that same virus or bacteria, those antibodies keep you from getting sick again. Vaccines do the same thing without making you ill. “Vaccines induce the protective immunity that is a consequence of natural infection, without having to pay the price of [becoming sick with] a natural infection,” said Paul Offit, chief of the division of infectious diseases and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Scientists create vaccines by disabling a virus or bacteria so that it is not able to cause disease but still can prod your body to make antibodies to it. Those antibodies will bind to infections in the future and keep them from making you sick. Getting a vaccine is “like having a protective bubble that keeps viruses and ba...

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