Pros and cons

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  • Pros of vaccination
    Vaccines have helped to eradicate many communciable disease - smallpox, polio
    Big oubreaks of disease, epidemics, can be prevented if a large proportion is vaccinated so even people that are unvaccinated are unlikely to catch it
  • Cons of vaccination
    Don't always work
    Bad reaction possibly
    Pathogens can change antigen