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4. What would happen to your body if a vaccination contained a healthy, living

antigen (instead of a dead or weakened antigen)?

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This is known as adaptive immunity. Vaccines utilise this adaptive immunity and memory to expose the body to the antigen without causing disease, so that when then live pathogen infects the body, the response is rapid and the pathogen is prevented from causing disease.

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