inoculating -
the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity; "doctors examined the recruits but nurses did the inoculating"
protection payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence; "every store in the neighborhood had to pay him protection"
ring vaccination administering vaccine only to people in close contact with an isolated infected patient; prevents the spread of a highly infectious disease by surrounding the patient with a ring of immunization
