Module 9 2021

23/03/2021

What are vaccines?

including adjuvants and vaccine types

ENABLING AND PROMOTING EXCELLENCE IN THE HEALTHCARE REGULATORY PROFESSION

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What is a vaccine?

 A vaccine is any preparation intended to produce immunity to a disease by stimulating an immune response (such as the production of antibodies)

 This immune response will react rapidly upon exposure to the pathogen and thereby prevent illness

“With the exception of safe water, no other modality, not even antibiotics, has had such a major effect on mortality reduction...”

Plotkin S et al, Vaccines, 2011

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