A person is given an attenuated antigen as a vaccine. When the person asks what was given in the vaccine, how should the nurse respond? The antigen is:
a. alive, but less infectious.
b. mutated, but highly infectious.
c. normal, but not infectious.
d. inactive, but infectious.
ANS: A
Attenuated vaccines are alive, but less infectious. Attenuated vaccines are not mutated or highly infectious. Inactive infers the virus is killed.
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