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vaccine

[vak-seen, vak-seen, -sin] / vækˈsin, ˈvæk sin, -sɪn /


NOUN
injection
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But no vaccine or treatment exists for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola responsible for the vast central African country's 17th outbreak of the disease, believed to have already killed 204 people.

From Barron's • May 24, 2026

The outbreak involves a rare species of Ebola, known as Bundibugyo, which has no proven vaccine and kills about a third of those infected.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

As for vaccines, the Ervebo vaccine works against the Zaire strain of Ebola but there is "very little evidence of cross-protection for Bundibugyo", said Briand.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

Unlike other strains of Ebola, a viral hemorrhagic fever, there is no current authorized vaccine or treatment for the Bundibugyo strain.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

This discovery meant that if HeLa was susceptible to poliovirus, which not all cells were, it would solve the mass-production problem and make it possible to test the vaccine without millions of monkey cells.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot




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