5th June Webinar Summary
We had a brief discussion on viruses, vaccines, bacteria and all.
@Saida Elph CUBE @Aashutosh Sir and others were taking part in the discussion
How do viruses enter?
What is the overall mechanism?
When there was a discussion that vaccines are used for treating viruses…we had Suma Swarajya from Arunachal Pradesh asking a question that
Why are we using only vaccines against viruses and not antibiotics?
Reply was
Antibiotics is used only for treating against bacteria and vaccines for viruses.
@Aashutosh Sir asked…why is it like that?
Reply from our CUBist was that bacteria has a cell wall and viruses just have a protein cell coat. And that antibiotics are used against the cell wall of the bacteria.
Again…why can’t an antibiotic be used against a protein coat of the virus?
Then we had to discuss what is a virus what is a bacteria.
How is it attacking the body?
Then how do we gain immunity against it?
How does the body recognise a virus previously attacked?
What are memory cells?
What are T cells, B cells?
How are these attacks being recorded or memorised in the body by the cells?
All these questions were asked by @Aashutosh Sir to build up the concept in everyone’s mind.
We had @Hina Ma’am CUBE Kanpur then joining us…
She explained about the innate immune, acquired immunity, herd immunity… different types of immunity.
Different types of antibodies?
Everything was explained by @Hina Ma’am CUBE Kanpur.
In this way we had this discussion about viruses, bacteria, immunization…