-
Vaccination is the introduction into the body
-
of either the whole, or part,
-
of a disease-causing microorganism,
-
in order to teach the immune system
-
to attack that same organism,
-
should it reappear in the body through natural processes.
-
The mechanism is that the vaccine primes the immune system
-
to produce antibodies, or teaches immune cells
-
to recognize and attack the organism,
-
that we now know perhaps to be a virus,a bacterium,
-
or a parasite of a different kind.
-
The problem, of course,