World Immunization Week 2016 is being organised across the globe between 24 April and 30 April 2016.
- World Immunization Week is a global public health campaign to raise awareness and increase rates of immunization against vaccine-preventable diseases around the world.
- It takes place each year during last week of April.
Immunization :
Immunization, or immunisation, is the process by which an individual's immune system becomes fortified against an agent (known as the immunogen).
- When this system is exposed to molecules that are foreign to the body, called non-self, it will orchestrate an immune response, and it will also develop the ability to quickly respond to a subsequent encounter because of immunological memory. This is a function of the adaptive immune system. Therefore, by exposing an animal to an immunogen in a controlled way, its body can learn to protect itself: this is called active immunization.
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