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Vaccination

Training the immune system with a harmless form or part of a pathogen. Smallpox eradication was certified in 1979 after a global eradication campaign.Source: WHOSource: WHO

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Vaccination uses

  • Process

    Adaptive immunity

    Slower, highly specific defenses carried out by B and T cells, which remember infections they have met before.

Vaccination includes the example

  • Technology or method

    mRNA vaccines

    Vaccines that deliver mRNA instructions for a pathogen protein. Modified nucleosides help the mRNA avoid an unwanted immune alarm.

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