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Vaccination or Innoculation
Vaccination - innoculation - immunisation, I can't find out the exact difference between them, can anyone here help please.
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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on
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"Inoculation is a set of methods of artificially inducing immunity against various infectious diseases. The terms inoculation, vaccination, [<-- Link] and immunization [<-- Link] are often used synonymously, but there are some important differences among them".
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Permalink Reply by Jim Walsh on
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thank you gordon. i am aware of wiki.
how can one explain it to a 10 years old school kid in terms that they can grasp as in 'every day speech'. cheers
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Not an educator or medical professional sorry so not able to prepare a text.
There's a TES resource that addresses this territory for 11-14 year olds:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-history-of-vaccination-and-...
Though it costs £2 to download in full.
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Permalink Reply by Lisa on
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They are basically the same thing - a method to make someone immune to an infection through the introduction of the infectious agent (often in a deactivated / modified state).
In simple terms for a child to understand, when a vaccine goes into your body, it has a bit of the germs inside it. Your body has a defense system against things that shouldn't be inside the body, called the immune system. The immune system notices that there's a germ inside you, and sends special cells to attack the germs.
The immune system also has a memory. So if the germs come into your body again, the immune system goes "aha, I remember this pest!" and it quickly picks the best immune cells to fight them off again.
A key point is, vaccines may not prevent infection, but they do reduce the chances of you getting very sick.
I hope this helps! I'm a science communicator, but my usual audience is grown ups....
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thank you lisa.
we do understand how immune systems work and that vaccination is to help the body fight the virus.
but we wanted to find out the exact DIFFERENCE between:
'Vaccination' - 'innoculation' - 'immunisation'
it's that simple. cheers
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Apologies, it's pretty nuanced!
Ok, having done a little more reading up (I'm not an immunologist!), I guess the following might differentiate between them:
Inoculation - putting an infectious agent into a person
Vaccination - putting a modified version of an infectious agent into a person
Immunization - what results from the above - triggering a response that gives you immunity against an infectious agent
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Permalink Reply by tigha on
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Interesting. As health profffesionals we use immunisations for routine vaccines. But vaccinations for extra vaccines given ie when travelling etc. Not sure why as never thought about it, as they all work on the same principles. Whereas inoculations are old school and the term isn't used these days. Sorry no help to you what so ever
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Jim, I'm sure a healthy 10-year old should be out kicking football instead of bothering the collective brain of HOL.
Incidentally, shouldn't COW & GATE produce vaccines?
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when a child asks me a simple question 'why are there three words used for the same thing' and i cannot answer i also want to know. these words are being used a hundred times a day by every one on the planet. don't you think it's important that we know the meaning of the words we use. i mean it is life or death for millions of folk right ?
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