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| 2005/9/12-14 [Health/Disease/General] UID:39635 Activity:low |
9/12 Some vaccine requires 2 shots, 6-1 year apart. When will someone
develop protection? A few weeks/months after the 1st shot? Or
only after the 2nd shot?
\- are you talking about say Hep A? some shots are configured
to require boosters for longer term protection. so you will be
protected for a while after the first shoot but if you get both
you may be protected for 10-20 yrs.
you may be protected for 10-20 yrs. the exact schedule recommended
depends on the disease and the vacc type.
\_ What about b that requires 3 shots? Are you protected after the
first shot?
\_ Each time your body reacts to an antigen, some B cells
targetting that antigen go into an inactive state with high
longevity. By reactivating them with boosters after the
initial exposure reaction is over, more storage cells are
created, often with different ways of targetting the same
antigen. So when you're infected by an active virus, your
body has a head start in dealing with it. The boosters
give you even more of a head start, so that possibly your
body can fight off a virus before there are any symptoms.
\- You should go ask an immunology professor about this.
Or maybe Peter Deusberg. But stand with your back to
the wall.
\_ Or wear a chestity belt backward. |
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