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Can a bacterial disease be cured with a vaccine? Also, is anthrax viral or bacterial?

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Can a bacterial disease be cured with a vaccine? Also, is anthrax viral or bacterial?

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Anthrax is bacterial. Bacterial diseases prevented with a vaccine include tetanus, whooping cough, diphtheria, tuberculosis, pneumococcal pneumonia, meningococcal meningitis and hemophilus influenzae b infection. Vaccines prevent disease and do not cure it.

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The short answer is Yes bacterial diseases are both prevented (prophylaxis) and cured (therapeutic) in some cases by vaccines. Generally speaking vaccines are used for phrophylaxis but some function as therapeutics. Anthrax is bacteria.