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What do you mean by vaccination? Who first conceived the idea of vaccination ?

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Vaccination is the technique to develop immunity in individuals against specific diseases without infection.

Edward Jenner is considered the founder of vaccinology in the West in 1796, after he inoculated a 13 year-old-boy with vaccinia virus (cowpox), and demonstrated immunity to smallpox.


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