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How do vaccines work?

Vaccines generally work through provoking the body into developing and mounting an immune response by imitating an infection. As a result the body produces specialized immune cells and antibodies against the target organisms. The initial exposure (vaccination) also makes the body “remember”” past exposures and thus mount a quicker response in future exposures to the same disease causing agent.

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