Prevention vs Cure

Vaccinations Antibiotics
Vaccines are a way of preventing disease in a patient. They do this by Antibiotics are a type of medicine used to treat bacterial infections.
making the immune system respond to the vaccine and then memory
cells remain in the bloodstream to respond to further infections. Antibiotics work in di erent ways: some antibiotics work by attacking
the cell membrane of the bacteria. This makes the cell membrane more
Vaccines are made up of dead or weakened forms of a bacteria or a likely to break up and the bacteria to be destroyed.
virus. Sometimes they only include the membrane and outer
components of the pathogen. Other antibiotics stop the bacteria being able to reproduce, they get in
the way of bacterial cell division.
These weakened pathogens create an immune response. The body
creates antibodies which attach to the surface of the pathogen, Antibiotics should not be prescribed for virus infections as they do not
disabling it before it is destroyed by white blood cells. work against viruses.
Memory cells remain in the blood and the body responds much quicker
to any further infection. This allows the body to prevent serious
infection by destroying the pathogen before it can make the person ill.
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