Question

Differentiate between vaccine and vaccination.

Answer 1

Vaccination is a simple, safe, and effective way of protecting people against harmful diseases, before they come into contact with them. It uses your body’s natural defenses to build resistance to specific infections and makes your immune system stronger.

Complete answer:
Vaccines train your immune system to create antibodies, just as it does when it’s exposed to a disease. However, because vaccines contain only killed or weakened forms of germs like viruses or bacteria, they do not cause the disease or put you at risk of its complications. Most vaccines are given by an injection, but some are given orally (by mouth) or sprayed into the nose.

Vaccination	Vaccine
1. The process involves Introducing a weakened / deactivated disease causing microbes into a person.	1. The vaccine is a biological preparation in which weak and heat killed (attenuated) forms of immunogens are used to provide active immunity and long-term protection against a disease.
2. Imovax Rabies is the trade name for rabies vaccine.	2. Vaccines reduce risks of getting a disease by working with your body’s natural defenses to build protection.
3. Vaccination does not guarantee complete resistance to a disease.	3. All the ingredients of a vaccine play an important role in ensuring a vaccine is safe and effective.
4. Usually, if mutation happens to microbe, it might render the vaccine ineffective (this is the reason why common cold has no vaccine)	4. Produces antibodies. Antibodies are proteins produced naturally by the immune system to fight disease.

Note: Immunity to a disease can occur naturally or be induced by artificial means. For instance, once you contract Chicken Pox, it is very rare for the same person to contract the disease again because they build up immunity to the disease. Creating immunity artificially involves exposures to very weak or deactivated disease causing microbes.