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Question
Give scientific reason.
Recently made vaccines are safe.
Solution
- Recently made vaccines produced by biotechnology are comparatively safer than using completely or partially killed pathogens as vaccines.
- Vaccines produced using biotechnology contain only pure proteins that are used as antigens to develop immunity and do not actually contain the complete pathogen, hence making them safer than conventional vaccines.
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