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vaccine

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


NOUN
injection
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Dr. Erica Schwartz said she would uphold science amid lawmaker questions over vaccine policy and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

"I had a friend who got to test that vaccine the year Martha got polio," she said.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

There is no vaccine or specific treatment available for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, which is causing the current outbreak.

From Barron's Jul. 14, 2026

Lillard got polio the year before the vaccine came out.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn’t actually invent anything.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

It is the first - out of four vaccines under development - to enter clinical trials.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

There are three other vaccines being developed for the Bundibugyo species of Ebola.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

She and many other doctors became advocates of HPV vaccines for boys and well as girls to prevent cancers that might show up decades later.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

In experiments with mice, scientists found that mRNA cancer vaccines remained highly effective even when an immune cell long believed to be essential was missing.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

The fact that the virus mutates rapidly means that vaccines for it will be very difficult to develop.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston




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