Question

What is vaccination?

Answer 1

Vaccine:

1. Vaccine is a preparation of weak or killed pathogens which cannot cause the disease.
2. The vaccine stimulates the immune system to produce antibodies and memory cells.
3. The memory cells can remember the micro-organism they have encountered before(through vaccine application) and can fight against them when they enter the body in future.

Vaccination:

1. Vaccination is the process of administering the vaccine.
2. A person becomes immune against a disease by vaccination.
3. thus immunisation is a response of the body after vaccination.
4. Example: A person is vaccinated with TAB vaccine for preventing tuberculosis.