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Vaccination and immunisation
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| TOPIC: ROLE OF THE PRACTICE NURSE |
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| The terms ‘vaccination’ and ‘immunisation’ are often used interchangeably. Vaccination is when a vaccine is given to a person to stimulate a protective immune response to prevent a specific disease, should they come into contact with that disease at a later date. So vaccination, if successful, results in immunisation and the vaccinated person has been immunised. |
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| Both for society and individuals, vaccination is a highly effective way of preventing a number of infectious diseases. Vaccines are generally safe, and routine immunisation programmes protect many of the world’s children from infectious diseases that once killed millions every year. |
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