Table of contents Vaccines Cause Diseases Cold Weather Gives you a Cold Radiation Makes You Healthy stopped Hearts Cannot Be Transplanted 10 Homeopathy Cures Diseases 12 Humans Use Only 10 percent of Their Brains 14 Ebola Spreads through the Air 16 Cigarettes Are Good for You 18 Bad Air Causes Diseases 20 Measuring the Skull Can Explain Personality People lose the Most Heat through Their Heads 24 Blindness Has No Cure 26 Fact Sheet 28 Glossary 30 For More Information 31 Index 32 About the Author 32
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
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