inoculation
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For many years after his son Frances’s death, Franklin dutifully recorded statistics on outbreaks throughout the colonies to demonstrate that smallpox acquired by inoculation was safer than that received in the “natural” way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
Health experts say that the disease could be controlled or even eradicated with proper inoculation rates - generally defined as 95% of a community receiving the measles vaccine.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2025
“All samples with a PCR positive result are going through egg inoculation tests, a gold-standard for determining if infectious virus is present,” they wrote.
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2024
It is caused by the bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei, which lives in soil and water in tropical and subtropical regions, and enters human bodies via inoculation through skin abrasions, ingestion or inhalation.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024
The inoculation was administered on the arm of each subject.'
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing inoculation
“About Edward Jenner” from the Jenner Institute
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