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Vaccination is the administration of , Lady Mary Wortley Montague reported that the Turks have a habit of deliberately inoculating themselves with fluid taken from mild cases of smallpox and she inoculated her own children.1 In 1796 Edward Jenner inoculated using Cowpox (a mild relative of the deadly smallpox virus). Pasteur and others built on this. Influenza Report (free online book) chapter ''Vaccines'' by Stephen Korsman '') is so named because the first Vaccine was derived from a Virus affecting cows—the relatively benign Cowpox virus—which provides a degree of immunity to Smallpox , a contagious and deadly disease. In common speech, 'vaccination' and 'immunization' generally have the same colloquial meaning. This distinguishes it from Inoculation which uses unweakened live pathogens, although in common usage either is used to refer to an Immunization . The word "vaccination" was originally used specifically to describe the injection of Smallpox vaccine. Biology-online |
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