Merdeka.com – Lack of information and understanding often results in community resistance to vaccination. Therefore, it is necessary to have a more comprehensive understanding of vaccines, vaccinations and immunizations so that people are not easily affected by misinformation.
Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, Padjadjaran University, Cissy Rachiana Sudjana Prawira-Kartasasmita, explained the differences in vaccines, vaccinations and immunizations. According to him, vaccines are substances that contain antigens from specific viruses or bacteria that have been weakened. The process of getting them into the body is known as vaccination.
“Vaccines are useless if they have not been received, if they have been injected or drunk or sprayed, they (new) will produce antibodies,” he said in the Productive Dialogue ‘Deepening Vaccines and Immunization’ at the Media Center Committee for Handling COVID-19 and National Economic Recovery (KPCPEN). , written Thursday (29/10).
Meanwhile, immunization is the reaction of our body after we have been injected with a vaccine or got a vaccine. The body will be stimulated, an immunological response occurs, the immune system, the body’s defense system produces antibodies.
“Apart from antibodies, the body also makes memory cells, (if the virus) comes back it is immediately killed,” he explained.
He added that vaccines have been proven to defeat various diseases. In fact, many diseases have disappeared and can no longer attack humans.
“Even the immunization program can eliminate and eliminate smallpox. Polio is almost gone, living in 2 countries,” he said.
Apart from avoiding yourself from various risks of infection and disease, immunization also helps protect other people who cannot be vaccinated for various reasons. [bim]
– .
