Human Anatomy & Physiology (11th Edition)
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Explain why each choice (a-d) is correct or incorrect.
A flu vaccine is needed seasonally to be effective but a polio vaccine is only needed once. The best explanation of this is
a. Flu vaccine is substantially weaker than the polio vaccine.
b. The polio virus is substantially weaker than the flu virus.
c. Exposure to flu vaccine produces no memory cells from proliferating B lymphocytes.
d. The flu has several strains that change seasonally.
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