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How Vaccines Work

How Vaccines Work.

by Matt Boucher

At different times in your life, most doctors will recommend that you get a vaccine. You might have received your first when you were only a few months old. Vaccines protect us from infectious diseases. Some of these diseases might make you feel unwell for a few days; others are deadly.

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Series: School Journal Level 4 November 2022

Learning area: Health and Physical Education, Science

Curriculum level: 4

Reading year level: 8

Topics: antibodies, cells, COVID-19, disease, flu, immune system, infectious diseases, iron lung, kaitiakitanga, micro-organisms, pathogens, polio, vaccination, vaccines, variants, viruses

In: School Journal Level 4 November 2022

Publication date: November 2022

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