The thing I hated the most was they gave me one of those shots in the spine to deaden me from the waist down. While laying in the recovery room I started trying to move my toes and could not. This scared the you know what out of me.
NIAM highlights the value of vaccines for people of all ages. National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM) is an annual observance held in August to highlight the importance of vaccination for people of all ages. NIAM was established to encourage people of all ages to make sure they are up to date on the vaccines recommended for them.
These words mean things that are a little different. Vaccination is when a person is given something to make the immune system learn to fight an infectious disease. Immunization is when a persons immune system learns to fight an infection. Immunization can happen from vaccination. But immunization can also happen from getting the infection. For example, a person can be immune to hepatitis B if he gets sick with hepatitis B.