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What do you mean by immunization?


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Immunization:

  1. It is the process of giving a vaccine to an individual to protect him or her against a disease.
  2. Thus, it is the process, which helps the body to generate an immune response naturally through vaccines.
  3. A biological preparation, which provides active acquired immunity to a specific infectious disease is known as a vaccine.
  4. It is identical to the immunity one attains from a disease.
  5. A complex biological system endowed with the tendency to tolerate and identify whatever belongs to the self, and to determine and reject what is non-self or foreign is immunity.

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