Process
Adaptive immunity
Slower, highly specific defenses carried out by B and T cells, which remember infections they have met before.
Vaccination
Training the immune system with a harmless form or part of a pathogen. Smallpox eradication was certified in 1979 after a global eradication campaign.Source: WHOSource: WHO
Also called vaccine, immunization.
Technology or method
How Vaccination connects
Vaccination uses
Vaccination includes the example
Technology or method
mRNA vaccines
Vaccines that deliver mRNA instructions for a pathogen protein. Modified nucleosides help the mRNA avoid an unwanted immune alarm.
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Sources & further reading
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Vaccines and immunization: What is vaccination? (opens the original in a new tab)
World Health Organization. who.int. World Health Organization.
ReferenceIntergovernmental sourceEducationalSmallpox (opens the original in a new tab)
World Health Organization. who.int. World Health Organization.
ReferenceIntergovernmental sourceEducational