Describe a benefit that vaccination confers on the general population to produce

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Describe a benefit that vaccination confers on the general population to produce "herd immunity"? Contrast the use of live-attenuated viral vaccines compared to the use of inactivated or "killed" viral vaccines? Three advancements in the knowledge of immunology have contributed to the recent success of clinical tissue and organ transplantation. Describe these achievements? What situations can contribute to self-antigen becoming targets of autoimmunity? What are the characteristics of immunologically privileged sites in the human body?

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8.Herd immunity is a form of immunity that occurs when vaccination of significant proportion of population provides a measure of protection for individuals who have not developed immunity.

This prevent the spread of disease because it decrease the number of susceptible who can be infected. It mainly protect the individuals who can't get vaccination. These include children too young for vaccination, people with problem in immune system, too ill individuals (cancer patients).

Thus vaccination confers protection to general population.

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