Your Culture's Edge (podcast Network)

Host Jonathan Wolfman brings up the fact that anti-vax "Movement" is really just PLAGUE ENTHUSIASTS. When invaders such as bacteria or viruses enter the body for the first time, the immune system generates an elite team of proteins called antibodies to help repel the invasion. Antibodies latch onto unique proteins that hang off the invaders, known as antigens, and either destroy the pathogen themselves or call in other immune cells to help. The immune system remembers how to build these antibodies long after the initial infection clears, enabling the body to fend off those same types of bugs should they ever launch another attack. Unfortunately, when a completely unfamiliar antigen enters the body, the immune system may take several days to build up its antibody army. Particularly nasty bugs, like the measles virus, can overwhelm the immune system while its defenses are down. That's why we have vaccines. Vaccines contain dead or weakened pathogens that cannot cause infection but do kick the immune sys