How vaccines work

Vaccines work by educating the host’s immune system to recall the identity of a virus years after the initial encounter, a phenomenon called immune memory. Viral vaccines establish immunity and memory without the pathogenic consequences typical of a natural infection. The success of immunization in stimulating long-lived immune memory is among humanity’s greatest scientific and […]
Source: virology blog - Category: Virology Authors: Tags: Basic virology COVID-19 immune memory immunity pandemic pathogenesis SARS-CoV-2 vaccine viral virus viruses Source Type: blogs