Medical Myths, Busted!

Medical Myths, Busted! — page 1 — Busted Vaccines Cause Diseases Vaccines are medicines that prevent why it is important to know how diseases Scientists have developed vaccines work vaccines for many diseases Vaccines have saved millions of lives If enough people get vaccinated a disease may go away The body's immune system protects the body from diseases The system's white blood cells fight substances called antigens entirely Often these are disease causing But some people claim that vaccines viruses Once the white blood cells can cause disease They say a flu shot can give encounter the antigens they create antibodies These are proteins that help them fight the a person the flu This is a myth To understand Vaccines help your body build immunity to certain diseases antigens When people get sick their white blood cells destroy the antigens The white blood cells remember what antibodies to make Their immune systems can fight off the antigens when they get sick with the same disease Vaccines help the immune system defend the body They contain dead or weakened viruses This virus is the antigen But it is not possible for these dead or weakened antigens

Medical Myths, Busted! — page 2 — Large white blood cells attack antigens to fight disease to cause a disease A doctor injects the vaccine into a patient's blood The immune system is able to create antibodies against the antigens It makes the patient immune to that virus Sometimes a vaccine does not 179 million work A person's immune system may not produce the needed antibody Later he or she may catch the disease But the vaccine itself Approximate number of flu vaccine doses that were available in the United States for the 2015 2016 flu season did not cause the disease THINK ABOUT IT Vaccines are made up of dead or weakened Vaccines have been in the news Viruses in the last few years Some people are convinced vaccines are harmful Do you agree or disagree Use evidence from these pages and other sources to support your Vaccines allow a person's immune system to prepare to fight a disease Dead or weakened viruses cannot cause diseases answer

Medical Myths, Busted! — page 3 — Busted Cold Weather Gives you a Cold Many people believe cold weather this is a medical myth Cold causes colds This disease has the temperatures cannot give you a cold word cold right in its name However Viruses cause colds These microscopic structures enter living things They make copies of themselves This causes the living thing to get a disease A type of virus known as a rhinovirus causes colds Viruses can travel from person to person They spread through the air or through direct contact When a person with a cold sneezes viruses fly out in droplets of water The virus can also spread when people with colds shake hands with others Cold weather does not cause colds But it can make them Cold weather does not cause the more likely People usually stay indoors when it gets common cold but it could make getting one more likely cold

Medical Myths, Busted! — page 4 — 10 This puts them in close contact with others The virus has more chances Approximate number of days it takes to recover from the common cold to spread Also cold temperatures make it easier for rhinoviruses to copy themselves They can infect people more easily Cold temperatures do not cause the common cold Rhinoviruses are responsible for giving people the common cold Cold temperatures may indirectly make people more likely to catch colds The common cold spreads through droplets expelled in a

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