Re: £625
Originally Posted by
Longdogs
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I would think so. That's after already having the dead virus put into their body of course and hoping it doesn't come alive again. I understand that viruses are dead anyway until they find a body to live in.
You're confusing active and passive immunisation. In active immunisation weakened (not dead) virus is injected. Your immune system produces antibodies that can kill the virus since it is weakened. The antibodies remain in your blood and your immune system "remembers" the virus. A second infection, by fully alive virus, can be beaten.
In passive immunisation antibodies produced by humans or animals are injected in your blood. They remain there for a certain time. (tetanus vaccin lasts approx. 7 years). When you are infected by the virus the injected antibodies kill it and you don't get sick.
The statement that a virus is not alive is induced by the fact that the definition of live is 'able to reproduce'. A virus is not reproducing by its own, it needs a cell's replicating system for that.