The following information about vaccines is presented to educate visitors about both general and specific vaccine information, in easy to understand terminology. Coastal Carolina Research Center is dedicated to providing reliable clinical data to advance new medical treatments designed to improve the human family’s quality of life.

What is a vaccine? A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves a person’s immunity to a particular disease. Vaccines are dead or inactivated organisms or purified products derived from them.

How Does a Vaccine Work? A vaccine typically contains a small amount of an agent that resembles a microorganism. The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as foreign. The body then destroys the agent, and "remembers" it, so the immune system can more easily recognize and destroy any of these microorganisms that it encounters in the future.

History of Vaccines

Types of Vaccines

Developing immunity

Effectiveness of Vaccines

Trends in Vaccine Development

Pandemic

Current pandemics

Vaccines, Disease Prevention--Protect Those

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