Compare and contrast vaccines and antitoxins.

Both vaccines and antitoxins are administered to prevent one from dying, however, vaccines are given to make the body immune to many diseases such as polio and TBC and are given as a means of preventing the disease, while antitoxins are given following poisoning or to stop venom from destroying your body after it has been administered and has to be swiftly administered.

A vaccine a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies, and an antitoxin is an antibody that can neutralize a specific toxin. Both are huge breakthroughs in the world of medicine and both are designed to help ward off diseases.

As nouns the difference between antitoxin and vaccine is that antitoxin is an antibody that is capable of neutralising specific toxins that are causative agents of disease while vaccine is (immunology) a substance given to stimulate the body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease, prepared from the agent that causes the disease, or a synthetic substitute.

Explanation:

Vaccines are shots that contains agent of a virus that is weakened and or dead. On the other hand, antitoxins is an antibody that counteracts with a toxin.

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What is the difference between a vaccine and an antibiotic?
There are many different types of antibiotics and they act on the bacteria in different ways. Some antibiotics act by killing the bacteria while others prevent the bacteria from multiplying, therefore, its leaving your own immune system to 'mop them up'. Vaccines are used to prevent infection, particularly viral infections.