• Question: How do vaccines work?

    Asked by M+P to Deborah, Euan, Maheen, Rob, Stu on 16 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Deborah Prunty

      Deborah Prunty answered on 16 Jun 2016:

      Vaccines work by introducing a tiny little bit of dead virus into our systems. This gives our immune system a chance to learn how to fight it off so we don’t get sick when we are exposed to the live virus.

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