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What is a vaccine ? How do they act to p...

What is a vaccine ? How do they act to provide long term immunity to an individual who is vaccinated ?

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Vaccine is a preparation of killed micro- organism, living attenuated organisms or living fully virulent organism that is administered to produce or artificially increase immunity to a particular disease.
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