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  1. 1-cell-structure
    10 主题
  2. 2-biological-molecules
    19 主题
  3. 3-enzymes
    13 主题
  4. 4-cell-membranes-and-transport
    16 主题
  5. 5-the-mitotic-cell-cycle
    8 主题
  6. 6-nucleic-acids-and-protein-synthesis
    9 主题
  7. 7-transport-in-plants
    11 主题
  8. 8-transport-in-mammals
    16 主题
  9. 9-gas-exchange
    6 主题
  10. 10-infectious-diseases
    6 主题
  11. 11-immunity
    10 主题
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11-2-antibodies-and-vaccination AS vaccination-to-control-disease

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Exam code:9700

Vaccination to control disease

  • There are many safe and effective vaccines that exist against many pathogens

  • These vaccines have managed to push a number of childhood diseases to the verge of extinction

    • Vaccines against such diseases as mumps, chicken pox and whooping cough are administered to children as part of an immunisation schedule and they successfully result in immunity

  • As a result, many childhood diseases are kept at low levels within populations due to herd immunity

    • Herd immunity arises when a sufficiently large proportion of the population has been vaccinated (and are therefore immune)

    • This makes it difficult for a pathogen to spread within that population, as those not immunised are protected and unlikely to contract it as the levels of the disease are so low

Three scenarios show vaccination impact: no vaccination with widespread disease, partial vaccination with limited spread, and most vaccinated with contained spread.
The process of herd immunity to protect populations from communicable disease through vaccination

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