inoculation
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In 1759, he collaborated with an English physician on a pamphlet that promoted inoculation with simple instructions, and paid for 1,500 copies to be distributed to American physicians, community leaders and the working poor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Health experts say that the disease could be controlled or even eradicated with proper inoculation rates - generally defined as 95% of a community receiving the measles vaccine.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2025
“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
To his parents, the skills Trey was learning and his passion for the work felt like an inoculation against a deadly threat.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023
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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