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  2. Inoculation - Wikipedia

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    Inoculation is the act of implanting a pathogen or other microbe or virus into a person or other organism. It is a method of artificially inducing immunity against ...

  3. Zoster vaccine - Wikipedia

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    Zoster vaccination is used to prevent shingles and its complications, including postherpetic neuralgia. [8] [9] It can be considered a therapeutic vaccine, given that it is used to treat a latent virus that has remained dormant in cells since chicken pox infection earlier in life. [8]

  4. Vaccine hesitancy - Wikipedia

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    Religious arguments against inoculation were soon advanced. For example, in a 1722 sermon entitled "The Dangerous and Sinful Practice of Inoculation", the English theologian Reverend Edmund Massey argued that diseases are sent by God to punish sin and that any attempt to prevent smallpox via inoculation is a "diabolical operation". [199]

  5. Vaccine - Wikipedia

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    [13] [14] The folk practice of inoculation against smallpox was brought from Turkey to Britain in 1721 by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. [15] The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae (smallpox of the cow), the term devised by Edward Jenner (who both developed the concept of vaccines and created the first vaccine) to ...

  6. Autoinoculation - Wikipedia

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    Autoinoculation is derived from the Latin root words "autos" and "inoculate" that mean "self implanting" or "self infection" or "implanting something from oneself". [1] [2] Autoinoculation can refer to both beneficial medical procedures (e.g. vaccination) as well as non-beneficial or harmful natural processes (e.g. infection or disease).

  7. Immunization - Wikipedia

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    Dr. Schreiber of San Augustine giving a typhoid inoculation at a rural school, San Augustine County, Texas.Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.. Immunization, or immunisation, is the process by which an individual's immune system becomes fortified against an infectious agent (known as the immunogen).

  8. Variolation - Wikipedia

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    Variolation was the method of inoculation first used to immunize individuals against smallpox (Variola) with material taken from a patient or a recently variolated individual, in the hope that a mild, but protective, infection would result.

  9. Inoculum - Wikipedia

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    In biology, inoculum (pl.: inocula) refers to the source material used for inoculation. Inoculum may refer to: In medicine, material that is the source of the inoculation in a vaccine; In microbiology, propagules: cells, tissue, or viruses that are used to inoculate a new culture