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The purpose of vaccinations is to effort to prevent against infectious disease, it is the process of artificial induction of immunity , works by 'priming' the immune system with an immunogen
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VACCINATONS PURPOSE OF VACCINATIONS The purpose of vaccinations is to effort to prevent against infectious disease, it is the process of artificial induction of immunity , works by 'priming' the immune system with an immunogen. Stimulating immune response including the use of an infectious agent is known as immunisation. Vaccinations involve the management of one or more immunogens, in the form of live, but weakened (long and narrow) infectious agents, which normally are either weaker, but closely-related species (as with smallpox and cowpox), or strains weakened by some process. In such cases, an immunogen is called a vaccine. Some modern vaccines are administered after the patient already has contracted a disease, as in the cases of experimental AIDS, cancer and Alzheimer's disease vaccines are said to reduce the effects of the disease vastly, and vaccination within the first week is known to be beneficial to a degree. The first Rabies immunisation was...
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