Difference between vaccination and immunization

Vaccination

Immunization

The process involves Introducing a weakened / deactivated disease causing microbes into a person

The process starts after the person is exposed to the vaccine and the body starts building resistance to that disease

It is usually injected or administered orally

It is not administered in any way, the body develops the resistance from vaccines

Imovax Rabies is the trade name for rabies vaccine

The body builds up immunity through this vaccine for the disease rabies

Vaccination does not guarantee complete resistance to a disease

Complete immunity occurs when the person fully recovers from the disease

Usually, if mutation happens to microbe, it might render the vaccine ineffective (this is the reason why common cold has no vaccine)

Similarly, variations of a disease impact the body’s ability to generate an immune response