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splendid2:
So since vaccine is a weakened virus or pathogen it is meant to prevent, why can't they or even you weaken HIV virus and administer it to prevent HIV.
Just curious.

One of the problems is the very high mutation rate of the virus.
Vaccines take years, under normal circumstances, to be prepared, and the viral genome being targeted by the vaccine could change(mutate) far before the vaccine is ready.

Amhappy:
Vaccine is for prevention,therapeutics is for cure. I have learnt a lot from this pandemic. Na money I no make from am. Well done OP.

So u didn't know this b4 d pandemic

Ryocaj:
So u didn't know this b4 d pandemic

I knew vaccine is for prevention (primary school things) but i first heard the term therapeutics in a webminar I attended during this pandemic. And I learnt about procedure for drugs trials. I'm not medical inclined by the way.

Oga abeg enter Lab produce covid-19 vaccines for us.

Elcashy:
You try shaa, though e no too correct

It's absolutely correct and the way he presented it would enable a layman understand the basic difference btw a cure and vaccine.

This is not a presentation to a team of intellectuals in one's field of expertise.

Amhappy:
I knew vaccine is for prevention (primary school things) but i first heard the term therapeutics in a webminar I attended during this pandemic. And I learnt about procedure for drugs trials. I'm not medical inclined by the way.

U can clap for yourself now..

IBNgemini:
It seems even the woke and enlighten Nigerians goof when it comes to differentiating between a vaccine and a drug. I was on the Madagascar trend on twitter earlier today, I saw so many tweets from the so called INFLUENCERS saying we already have a cure in Madagascar organics, we don't need a vaccine. The Madagascar cure might be effective, but there are clinical and scientific backup on how it cures CoVid 19. The bedrock of modern medicine is MECHANISM, well the crux of this article is not on the Madagascar cure, it is to enlighten people on the difference between a vaccine and a drug.

What are vaccines?
In simple term vaccines are altered, inactive or killed microorganisms that are injected into the body system in order to elicit an immune response without disease manifestation. What this means is that a vaccine contains that particular virus or microbe(microorganism) responsible for a disease, e.g Smallpox virus is responsible for causing smallpox, the vaccine for smallpox will contain either a killed Smallpox virus or an altered Smallpox virus which has been weakened or ripped off its pathogenicity(ability to cause disease) to still capable of inciting an immune response.

The goal behind vaccination is not to treat you against the disease, but to prime your immune system in a way that when it encounters the real virus, the immune system will quickly ward off the virus because it is not a new thing to the system. Just picture this as "ONCE BITTEN TWICE SHY SCENARIO," but in actual sense we were never beaten, because our first exposure to the virus which was the vaccine which did not lead to disease manifestation, unlike a natural kind of immunity where you fall sick during the first exposure to the virus, but after recovery(if you are lucky) your body will be primed against the virus, and any subsequent exposure your body already knows what it is dealing with and fight it off quickly.

So, how does this differ from medication?
By medication I mean therapeutic drugs, organics(herbs) etc. What a drug does it to cure you after you have been infected or probably diseased, it assists your immune system in fighting the virus, different kinds of drugs have different mechanisms by which they help in curing a particular disease. Some drugs are specific in the disease they treat, some have wide range,but in whatever a drug does it is not in its place to prevent from encountering the disease.

Clearly we can see the difference vaccines prevent you from falling sick, while drugs help you manage or get you back up after you have falling sick. A vaccine is useless to someone who is already sick, because there is nothing to prevent, but a drug will come in handy to salvage the situation. A healthy person has no business talking a drug hoping it is will be prevent them from having the disease, rather the person should be vaccinated so he/she won't fall sick when he/she encounters the real virus.

We can see the ultimate goal to fight this pandemic is to prevent its spread via vaccination. PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE.

Thank You.

Lol
Op you tried to explain what you don't know. Vaccines can prevent as well as treat a disease condition. A vaccine is a drug. Medication can also be use to prevent or treat an infection. The only difference is the the source. Vaccines are gotten from the microbe itself but drugs are gotten from herbs or synthetic

Jelzin2412:
It's absolutely correct and the way he presented it would enable a layman understand the basic difference btw a cure and vaccine.

This is not a presentation to a team of intellectuals in one's field of expertise.

Completely wrong

EngrOversabi:
Nna

Na people like you i no dey gree ask "what was your own answer" after exams.

Nice one.

You wey be oversabi still get who sabi pass u?

E don be for olodo like me be that nah


Reminds me of when I wrote my 200L cost accounting exam years back, lecturer teach us basic methods, con set over complicated question, for the first time in my life, I exit exam hall dey shiver, even one of our first class goons dey talk say him no sure say him do well, I just loose hope completely finish kpatakpata
u know when you read hard, wrote hard but know u would still fail

Lol, this life hard sha

geunik:
Completely wrong

I laugh at some of you...However, I'm happy the audience got the basic difference btw a therapeutic cure and vaccine. The body of the article is nowhere near perfection but the crux of it is ok.

ChybuzzDD:
It's not true.

The word "drug", "medicine", "medication" are the same(synonymous), and are used interchangeably.

Vaccines are drugs/medicines/medications, but are under the Biopharmaceutical class of drugs/medicines/medications.

Lol. I don't need to argue with you. medicines and drugs are not the same. Because they are used interchangeably doesn't make it the same. There are so many words that are used interchangeably, but in the real sense, they are not the same.

All Medicines are drugs but not all drugs are medicines.

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ChybuzzDD:
You did well.
But remember vaccines are also drugs/medications.
You were using "vaccines" as though they're not drugs or medications.
Drugs or medications are defined as pharmacological agents that can be used to diagnose, cure, treat or prevent a disease condition.
So, a vaccine is a type of drug used to prevent a disease.
Now, your heading should read:

"The Difference Between Therapeutic(curative) Drugs And Preventive Drugs(Vaccines)".

Kudos, once again.

you're smart. I doff my hat for you

Anyone taking about vaccinations now are ACTORS EMPLOYED TO WORK for the Bill Gates. NO TO MANDATORY VACCINE

IBNgemini:
It seems even the woke and enlighten Nigerians goof when it comes to differentiating between a vaccine and a drug. I was on the Madagascar trend on twitter earlier today, I saw so many tweets from the so called INFLUENCERS saying we already have a cure in Madagascar organics, we don't need a vaccine. The Madagascar cure might be effective, but there are clinical and scientific backup on how it cures CoVid 19. The bedrock of modern medicine is MECHANISM, well the crux of this article is not on the Madagascar cure, it is to enlighten people on the difference between a vaccine and a drug.

What are vaccines?
In simple term vaccines are altered, inactive or killed microorganisms that are injected into the body system in order to elicit an immune response without disease manifestation. What this means is that a vaccine contains that particular virus or microbe(microorganism) responsible for a disease, e.g Smallpox virus is responsible for causing smallpox, the vaccine for smallpox will contain either a killed Smallpox virus or an altered Smallpox virus which has been weakened or ripped off its pathogenicity(ability to cause disease) to still capable of inciting an immune response.

The goal behind vaccination is not to treat you against the disease, but to prime your immune system in a way that when it encounters the real virus, the immune system will quickly ward off the virus because it is not a new thing to the system. Just picture this as "ONCE BITTEN TWICE SHY SCENARIO," but in actual sense we were never beaten, because our first exposure to the virus which was the vaccine which did not lead to disease manifestation, unlike a natural kind of immunity where you fall sick during the first exposure to the virus, but after recovery(if you are lucky) your body will be primed against the virus, and any subsequent exposure your body already knows what it is dealing with and fight it off quickly.

So, how does this differ from medication?
By medication I mean therapeutic drugs, organics(herbs) etc. What a drug does it to cure you after you have been infected or probably diseased, it assists your immune system in fighting the virus, different kinds of drugs have different mechanisms by which they help in curing a particular disease. Some drugs are specific in the disease they treat, some have wide range,but in whatever a drug does it is not in its place to prevent from encountering the disease.

Clearly we can see the difference vaccines prevent you from falling sick, while drugs help you manage or get you back up after you have falling sick. A vaccine is useless to someone who is already sick, because there is nothing to prevent, but a drug will come in handy to salvage the situation. A healthy person has no business talking a drug hoping it is will be prevent them from having the disease, rather the person should be vaccinated so he/she won't fall sick when he/she encounters the real virus.

We can see the ultimate goal to fight this pandemic is to prevent its spread via vaccination. PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE.

Thank You.

Why haven't there be vaccine for malaria, other viruses or diseases, so that that we can be immune against all.

Jelzin2412:
I laugh at some of you...However, I'm happy the audience got the basic difference btw a therapeutic cure and vaccine. The body of the article is nowhere near perfection but the crux of it is ok.

That the crowd accepted it does not make it right

Very educative. Thanks OP.

IBNgemini:
It seems even the woke and enlighten Nigerians goof when it comes to differentiating between a vaccine and a drug. I was on the Madagascar trend on twitter earlier today, I saw so many tweets from the so called INFLUENCERS saying we already have a cure in Madagascar organics, we don't need a vaccine. The Madagascar cure might be effective, but there are clinical and scientific backup on how it cures CoVid 19. The bedrock of modern medicine is MECHANISM, well the crux of this article is not on the Madagascar cure, it is to enlighten people on the difference between a vaccine and a drug.

What are vaccines?
In simple term vaccines are altered, inactive or killed microorganisms that are injected into the body system in order to elicit an immune response without disease manifestation. What this means is that a vaccine contains that particular virus or microbe(microorganism) responsible for a disease, e.g Smallpox virus is responsible for causing smallpox, the vaccine for smallpox will contain either a killed Smallpox virus or an altered Smallpox virus which has been weakened or ripped off its pathogenicity(ability to cause disease) to still capable of inciting an immune response.

The goal behind vaccination is not to treat you against the disease, but to prime your immune system in a way that when it encounters the real virus, the immune system will quickly ward off the virus because it is not a new thing to the system. Just picture this as "ONCE BITTEN TWICE SHY SCENARIO," but in actual sense we were never beaten, because our first exposure to the virus which was the vaccine which did not lead to disease manifestation, unlike a natural kind of immunity where you fall sick during the first exposure to the virus, but after recovery(if you are lucky) your body will be primed against the virus, and any subsequent exposure your body already knows what it is dealing with and fight it off quickly.

So, how does this differ from medication?
By medication I mean therapeutic drugs, organics(herbs) etc. What a drug does it to cure you after you have been infected or probably diseased, it assists your immune system in fighting the virus, different kinds of drugs have different mechanisms by which they help in curing a particular disease. Some drugs are specific in the disease they treat, some have wide range,but in whatever a drug does it is not in its place to prevent from encountering the disease.

Clearly we can see the difference vaccines prevent you from falling sick, while drugs help you manage or get you back up after you have falling sick. A vaccine is useless to someone who is already sick, because there is nothing to prevent, but a drug will come in handy to salvage the situation. A healthy person has no business talking a drug hoping it is will be prevent them from having the disease, rather the person should be vaccinated so he/she won't fall sick when he/she encounters the real virus.

We can see the ultimate goal to fight this pandemic is to prevent its spread via vaccination. PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE.

Thank You.

Thanks for the clarification...

Oh

Jelzin2412:
I laugh at some of you...However, I'm happy the audience got the basic difference btw a therapeutic cure and vaccine. The body of the article is nowhere near perfection but the crux of it is ok.

Sorry sir, please are you related to Yomi Fash Lanso? Because you look much like him sir

Righteousman01:
Sorry sir, please are you related to Yomi Fash Lanso? Because you look much like him sir

No I'm not...I don't even know him

@OP,a million thanks and much more to you doing yeoman job on ds topic,it so apt and timely.I guess u must b in d Pharmacy or scientific line of work,rite? Keep d gud work up at enlightening the Supposed 'Enlightened folks' out there.God bless

Jelzin2412:
No I'm not...I don't even know him

oh. He is a Yoruba Nollyhood Actor.

Morning sir

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geunik:
Lol
Op you tried to explain what you don't know. Vaccines can prevent as well as treat a disease condition. A vaccine is a drug. Medication can also be use to prevent or treat an infection. The only difference is the the source. Vaccines are gotten from the microbe itself but drugs are gotten from herbs or synthetic

lol... The topic is for those who are not health inclined. If I go too deep into pharmacology some people might get lost, so what is the essence of the article if a layman can't make sense of it. Yeah I know we have THERAPEUTIC VACCINES, they are not the TRADITIONAL OR CONVENTIONAL vaccine, and they have application in diseases that affect the immune system a typical case is Cancer. like I said this is not a pharmacology class, the article is just to enlighten the public.

tomdon:
How can someone mix the meaning of vaccine and drug?? Are you that daft??

sincerely I think you are the daft one here

Ajibade123:
sincerely I think you are the daft one here

Your response stems out of bitterness. No valid point