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Default What is the difference between immunization and vaccination? - 01-18-2009, 07:51 PM

In class notes it says:"Immunity can be achieved artificially by immunization or vaccination."
   
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Default 02-07-2009, 01:22 AM

Immunization is the process of achieving immunity. Vaccination is one kind of immunization. Artificial immunization and vaccination are essentially the same thing.
   
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Default 03-24-2009, 07:11 PM

I think one is done with live but weaken virus which causes you immune system to kick in to kill it and the other uses dead virus that still causes the immune system to act up but since the virus is already dead the antibodies are made but not used so you are safe if exposed. Either way the serum used is called a vaccine so maybe they are the same thing,and the words are interchangeable
   
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Default 07-06-2009, 01:25 AM

Immunization, or immunisation, is the process by which an individual's immune system becomes fortified against an agent (known as the immunogen).Vaccination is the administration of antigenic material (the Vaccine) to produce immunity to a disease
   
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Default 08-03-2011, 12:30 PM

I think Both are related with an individual's immune system.
   
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Default 02-06-2012, 06:47 PM

In general, these terms are used interchangeably, but there is a difference.
Immunity is what you get when you are exposed to a disease, either by contracting the disease or being vaccinated against it. Your body is then "immune" to the disease because your immune system know what that virus "looks like".
Vaccination is getting the dose of vaccine to get immunity.


vaccination is an individual event; immunization refers to a population.

immunzation program vs. Johnny got vaccinated
The difference between vaccination and immunity is a vaccination is an inoculation with any vaccine or toxoid to establish resistence to a specific infectious disease. An imunity is a response to infectious diseases that keeps the body from being effected by it.


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