inoculation
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Still, inoculation was so controversial at the time that Boylston was threatened with hanging, and a homemade bomb was thrown through a window of Mather’s house but failed to explode.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
“All samples with a PCR positive result are going through egg inoculation tests, a gold-standard for determining if infectious virus is present,” they wrote.
From Salon • Apr. 27, 2024
It is meant to be administered, alongside inoculation for diphtheria, tetanus, polio and others, from the very first weeks of life.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2024
It is caused by the bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei, which lives in soil and water in tropical and subtropical regions, and enters human bodies via inoculation through skin abrasions, ingestion or inhalation.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2024
Other prisoners said he was lucky and would never get it again—that a mild case was like an inoculation.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
Vocabulary lists containing inoculation
“About Edward Jenner” from the Jenner Institute
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