Routine, Post-illness and Travel vaccinations

Vaccination means “giving” a vaccine to the body to stimulate the immune system.

Immunisation means the “protection” a person acquires against a disease from the vaccine given.

Vaccines are given in many forms. The regular and Nation-wide acceptable ones are :

• Oral – by mouth
• Intramuscular – by injecting into thigh or arm muscle
• Intradermal – by injecting in between skin layers
• Subcutaneous – by injecting into fat layer