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Vaccination vs Antivaccine - What's the difference?

vaccination | antivaccine |

As a noun vaccination

is inoculation with a vaccine, in order to protect from a particular disease or strain of disease.

As an adjective antivaccine is

opposed to vaccination.

vaccination

English

(wikipedia vaccination)

Noun

(-)
  • Inoculation with a vaccine, in order to protect from a particular disease or strain of disease.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= It's a gas , passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination .}}

    Related terms

    * vaccination mark

    antivaccine

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Opposed to vaccination
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 13, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., Book Is Rallying Resistance to the Antivaccine Crusade, New York Times citation
    • , passage=A new book defending vaccines, written by a doctor infuriated at the claim that they cause autism, is galvanizing a backlash against the antivaccine movement in the United States. }}