Question

What is the difference between: vaccination, variolation, and inoculation?

Answer 1

The term variolation refers solely to inoculation with smallpox virus and is not interchangeable with vaccination. ... Inoculation is used synonymously with injection in connection with the use of vaccines or other biopharmaceuticals, but has other meanings in e.g. laboratory work.

Answer 2

Answer:

vaccination: treatment with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease

variolation: it was method which was used to immunize an individual against smallpox

inoculation: the introduction of an antigenic substance or vaccine in the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.