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vaccine

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


NOUN
injection
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In 2022 South Korea approved a Covid-19 vaccine built with a computer-designed protein, the first medication of its kind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

About 90,000 Amish people live in Pennsylvania, with estimates suggesting around only a quarter of Amish people in the Lancaster area have had the MMR vaccine.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The therapeutic vaccine is unique and uses a new approach to treating cancer than mainstream treatments.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

Bundibugyo, however, occurs much less often, and no licensed vaccine or therapeutic has been developed specifically to target it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

If the disease invaded a large city and a call went out for hundreds of thousands of doses of the vaccine, it would take months to produce it.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

Since the outbreak started, the county has given 538 MMR vaccines, 340 of which they administered in private settings.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

"Preparedness planning should extend beyond diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics to include operational readiness for multinational outbreak response," she said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

However, Yunus's former top health ministry official had denied any shortage of vaccines.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

The CDC contracts with manufacturers of the U.S.-licensed vaccines each year and negotiates discounted prices for federal programs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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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