Medicines that prevent disease include
Health · High School · Mon Jan 18 2021
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Medicines that prevent diseases are primarily known as vaccines. Vaccines are biological preparations that provide active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. They stimulate the body's immune system to recognize the agent as a threat, destroy it, and remember it, so that the immune system can more easily recognize and destroy any of these microorganisms that it later encounters. Other types of medicines that can prevent disease include prophylactic antibiotics and antiviral drugs, which are given to prevent an infection before it starts or to mitigate the risk of infection after exposure to a pathogen.