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Immunisation

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Immunisation Immunisation is a life saving weapon which protects individuals and the community from serious diseases. Weakened virus/bacteria are injected into the body, your natural or artificial immunity makes you immunized and the white blood cells are active, it is a vaccination that makes the body's immune system produce anti bodies that will fight the virus/disease. They then fight the bacteria until the body is free from infection or disease. It prepares our bodies to fight against them. Safe and effective vaccines are given to eliminate them and protect people from life threatening diseases. If enough people in the community are immunised, the infection can no longer be spread between people and therefore in the long term the disease dies out altogether. However, immunisation relies on white blood cells making anti bodies. There are two main types of immunisation; active immunisation and passive immunisation. Active immunisation is a process which...

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