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> Some vaccines use a "weakened" form of the pathogen to trigger immunity response without causing actual disease For anyone who wants to look up more, the wor
by Izkata 4y ago
> Some vaccines use a "weakened" form of the pathogen to trigger immunity response without causing actual disease
For anyone who wants to look up more, the word "attenuated" is used to describe this.
> This is not the case with most modern vaccines
It's actually really common, just not with flu shots: https://www.hhs.gov/immunization/basics/types/index.html https://www.hhs.gov/immunization/basics/types/index.html