Infection and response

Created by: Darkerday
Created on: 06-10-17 07:10

Vaccine

An injection that disposes a weak version of a pathogen into your blood to teach your white blood cells how to fight it. This helps us become immune to that certain pathogen.

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Immune

resistant to a particular infection or toxin owing to the presence of specific antibodies or sensitized white blood cells

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Antibody

Helps kill pathogens and is produced by white blood cells

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Pathogen

Pathogens are a micro organism that infects you and causes disease.

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How are new medicines developed?

Animal testing and human volunteers.

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What is a double-blind trial?

The doctors and the patients don't know which drug is the real drug or a placebo.

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What are the differences between bacteria and viruses?

Viruses cannot be destroyed by antibiotics. Bacteria are bigger.

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How do our bodies defend against disease?

Our bodies defend against disease by having antibiotics in tears, antiseptic ear wax, clotting blood on a wound and creating a scab, creating mucus to trap pathogens and having white blood cells to sort out the pathogens that manage to get inside you

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What are antibiotics?

They contain anti bodies that kill bacteria.

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How do antibiotics work?

They release antibodies that cause the bacteria to bleed.

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