Live attenuated vaccines and Inactivated vaccines
Live Attenuated Vaccines
✏ Production Method
Use a nonpathogenic virus related to the real pathogen
Advantages ✅
Disadvantages ❎
Weakening the virus, purifying the vaccination solution, and administering the vaccination solution
🔥 Disease usually used
Measles, mumps, and rubella
Create a stronger immunity than inactivated vaccine
Expensive
Lower level of safety
Not suitable with individuals with compromised immune systems
Can confer a lifelong immunity on individuals
Inactivated Vaccines
🔥 Disease often used
Advantages ✅
✏ Production Method
Disadvantages ❎
Using chemicals, heat, or radiation to render a pathogenic virus harmless, or "fixed"
Hepatitis A, rabies
Cheaper than attenuated vaccines
Safer than attenuated vaccines
Can be reconstituted and easily stored
Deliver a much weaker immune system response
Require several additional doses