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vaccine

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


NOUN
injection
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The two-dose vaccine will be available to pupils currently in their last year of secondary school and those aged 18 to 25 heading to university or residential further education for the first time this autumn.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Vaccine experts are assessing whether to expand the routine vaccine programme.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

This species of Ebola, the Bundibugyo virus, is harder to detect, and there is no vaccine for it.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026

There is no specific vaccine or treatment for the Bundibugyo Ebola strain behind the latest outbreak.

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

Instead he told her about Henrietta’s cells being used for the polio vaccine and genetic research; he said they’d gone up in early space missions and been used in atomic bomb testing.

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




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