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What is the difference between vaccines and antiviral drugs?

April 26, 2017antiviral difference drugs vaccines

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What is the difference between vaccines and antiviral drugs?

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Influenza vaccines are given as a preventive measure to elicit a protective immune response in the body. When immunized, the body is poised to remember this virus and can better fight an infection caused by it. Antiviral drugs, on the other hand, are medicines given to people either prophylactically to prevent influenza or therapeutically once they are already infected.