prophylaxis
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I hoped the solution would be my Yellow Card, also known as the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis.
From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2021
The International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis, known to many as the carte jaune or yellow card, was originally created in the mid 1930s by the World Health Organization.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2020
Those who knowingly have sex with someone who has an HIV-positive diagnosis also can take Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP, a pill taken every day that prevents them from getting the virus.
From US News • Nov. 17, 2015
Prophylaxis is common with, for example, malaria drugs for travelers making brief sojourns in the tropics.
From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2010
The American Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, with which the name of Dr. Morrow is specially connected, was organized in 1905.
From The Task of Social Hygiene by Ellis, Havelock
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