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HUBLOT Posted 14 years ago
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Dead form
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16165605
The flu vaccine is the only proven medical protection against flu, though it has no effect on the common cold. Contrary to popular myth, the vaccine cannot actually give you the flu. It injects a dead form of the virus into the body.
May I ask what dead form means?
The flu vaccine is the only proven medical protection against flu, though it has no effect on the common cold. Contrary to popular myth, the vaccine cannot actually give you the flu. It injects a dead form of the virus into the body.
May I ask what dead form means?
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e. incapable of causing infection. The reason I put "dead" in quotes here is that it's still an unsettled question as to whether virii should be considered living at all.
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- incapable of causing infection.
- The reason I put "dead" in quotes here is that it's still an unsettled question as to whether virii should be considered living at all.
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It means that the virus is "dead", i.e. incapable of causing infection. The reason I put "dead" in quotes here is that it's still an unsettled question as to whether virii should be considered living at all.
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The flu vaccine (though that sentence exhibits some sloppy writing: the vaccine does not inject anything, the person administering the vaccine does).
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Thank you, CS. I still don't understnad the sentence. Could you rewrite it, please?
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Does "an injection of a dead form of the flu virus" mean "an injection that kills the flu virus"?
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No. It means an injection of flu virus that has been rendered inert, ineffectual, incapable of inducing illness.
Vaccines work by introducing the foreign agent to the body so that the immune system becomes sensitized to it and is able to destroy it before symptoms of infection appear. Some vaccines are prepared with live pathogens that are capable of causing illness, and some are prepa
Vaccines work by introducing the foreign agent to the body so that the immune system becomes sensitized to it and is able to destroy it before symptoms of infection appear. Some vaccines are prepared with live pathogens that are capable of causing illness, and some are prepa
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