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Vaccination is designed to give you immunity to a particular disease. A dead or weakened culture of a disease is introduced into the body, not enough to harm but enough for the body to prepare its defence and create an immunity. Should the body then be exposed to the disease later it will have its defence ready.

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What is the relationship between immunity and vaccination?

You get immunity by having a vaccination or by having the infection itself. The vaccination is the introduction of the pathogen in tiny amounts to kick start your immune system so it knows how to deal with the real thing if you encounter the germ in the environment. A vaccine is the medicine made to introduce the pathogen (infection-causing "bug") into your body in a vaccination. Having immunity is how your body prevents a second infection by the same germ. The first time you catch the germ (or get a vaccination for it), your body responds to cause immunity, so if you run across the same exact germ again later, your body already knows how to prevent an infection again. See the related questions below for more about vaccines and vaccinations.


The process of vaccination?

Vaccination is the process of attempting to confer artificial immunity on an individual organism by exposing the immune system to antigens of the pathogen being vaccinated against. Vaccination does not provide nearly as good protection as natural, or acquired immunity.


What injection is to stop you getting a disease?

A vaccination is an injection given to prevent a person from getting a specific disease by helping the immune system develop immunity to that disease. It contains a weakened or killed version of the germ that causes the disease, triggering the body to produce antibodies to protect against future infections.


The act or practice of inoculating someone with vaccine as a protection against disease-?

Vaccination is the act of administering a vaccine to stimulate the body's immune system to develop immunity against a specific disease. It helps protect individuals from infectious diseases by preparing their immune system to recognize and fight off the pathogen if exposed to it in the future.


What is the meaning of passive immunity?

Our immune systems are designed to keep track of the various infections that can be caused by pathogens once they encounter them. This helps to increase our immunity as this information helps the bodies immune system to fortify itself against further attacks by the same pathogen. If immunity is increased by means other than acquiring the disease, then it is known as passive immunity. e.g. Vaccination( in this weak pathogens are injected in the body and this helps the body's immune system to remember and then identify it to fortify the body for any future attacks by that pathogen)

Related Questions

How does someone get artificial immunity?

a vaccination


What form of immunity is acquired through vaccination?

Artificially acquired active immunity.


What is an vaccination?

vaccination is a vaccine that stimulate your immune system to develop adaptive immunity to disease.


What is the weakened agent of disease that can provide immunity for a particular disease?

That is called a vaccination.


An organism develops active immunity as a result of?

Producing antibodies in response to a vaccination


Derscribe the relationship between vaccination and immunity?

they both are used to protect the body from infection


What is the relationship between immunity and vaccination?

You get immunity by having a vaccination or by having the infection itself. The vaccination is the introduction of the pathogen in tiny amounts to kick start your immune system so it knows how to deal with the real thing if you encounter the germ in the environment. A vaccine is the medicine made to introduce the pathogen (infection-causing "bug") into your body in a vaccination. Having immunity is how your body prevents a second infection by the same germ. The first time you catch the germ (or get a vaccination for it), your body responds to cause immunity, so if you run across the same exact germ again later, your body already knows how to prevent an infection again. See the related questions below for more about vaccines and vaccinations.


What is herd vaccination?

Herd vaccination refers to when the majority of a population or commumity are vaccinated that it creates immunity against a specific disease that they were vaccinated for. It creates some safety for the nonvaccinated individuals since the majority of the group have developed immunity and are protected from contracting and spreading the disease to others.


Does active immunity involve a person becoming immune to a pathogen as a result of having a disease?

by vaccination


How do you improve your immunity?

There are different types of immunity Non-specific and Speicific and the best is Innate which is inborn, acquired active after exposure to a disease like measles & mumps and by vaccination which is Artificially acquired active immunity which is the practice now to prevent from incurring a disease. There are different types of immunity Non-specific and Speicific and the best is Innate which is inborn, acquired active after exposure to a disease like measles & mumps and by vaccination which is Artificially acquired active immunity which is the practice now to prevent from incurring a disease.


How was the vaccination for smallpox developed?

They took dead cow pox virus and injected it into humans . This developed an immunity in the host.


What is the process of giving by mouth or injection a weakened virus that allows one to develop immunity against a disease?

Vaccination