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vaccine

noun as in booster shot

noun as in injection

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noun as in serum

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The United States and the United Kingdom are two countries in the English-speaking world that have already entered into deals with potential vaccine makers.

It’s far from certain that the vaccine will be approved for widespread distribution.

From Quartz

Double-dose vaccines will have to come from the same drugmaker.

From Fortune

In the 1950s, Albert Sabin was searching for an improved polio vaccine.

Chen explained that the scale of the global effort gives him confidence that a vaccine will eventually reach market.

From Fortune

The vaccine is delivered through a “carrier virus” that causes a common cold in chimpanzees but does not affect humans.

The need for an Ebola vaccine in West Africa has never been greater.

With Ebola still raging in West Africa, the race to find a vaccine is heating up.

On average, the vaccine has an efficacy of about 60 percent.

With enough changing of the influenza RNA over time, the vaccine no longer provokes the “right” immune response.

British house of commons voted Dr. Jenner 10,000 for his discovery of the vaccine inoculation.

We have two kinds of vaccines already, the cow-pox vaccine and the killed cultures of bacteria introduced by Wright.

The final proof was the cure of the patient by an autogenous vaccine made of the offending microbe.

It would be better to leave off the word vaccine as applied to them and call them what they are, pollen extracts.

Do we not witness in the newly formed vaccine vesicle, an increase of the specific force and principle?

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On this page you'll find 105 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to vaccine, such as: antibiotic, antibody, antiseptic, antiserum, antivenin, and medicine.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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