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vaccinate

[vak-suh-nayt] / ˈvæk səˌneɪt /
VERB
give a shot to treat or prevent disease
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Although official records suggested 90-95% coverage in some areas, health workers found children without records and families reluctant to vaccinate.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

“Every day there are opportunities to vaccinate children and protect them that we’re missing because those vaccines aren’t yet in the field,” Fiscus said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

A frequently asked question is: “Did you vaccinate your children?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

"When you think about the people who are choosing not to vaccinate their children, these are also the people that have medical hesitancy in general," she told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

We imagined them liberating Angola and marching right on up the Congo River to vaccinate us all!

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Walking into strangers' homes, Weiser says she tries her best to be respectful and non-intrusive as she vaccinates dozens of family members against the measles, sometimes around the kitchen table.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The new U.S. vaccination guidelines are much closer to those of Denmark, which routinely vaccinates its children against only 10 diseases.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2026

Refusing to import chicken meat from the United States if it vaccinates is a tempting retaliatory measure.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 6, 2023

Castro and Raimondo said they are suffering only mild symptoms while Schiff said he is “feeling fine” — and touted the value of vaccinates and boosters.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2022

If poor judgment is used in caring for the vaccinated hogs, and the person who vaccinates them uses careless methods, heavy losses from acute indigestion, blood poisoning, or hog-cholera may occur.

From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by R. A. Craig, D.V.M.

Nerys Evans, Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health, is also urging people to make sure they are vaccinated against Covid-19, flu and RSV ahead of the winter months.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Goldsmith is now calling on others to be vaccinated against the illness, describing the experience as "the most traumatic thing we've had to go through".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The agency also said the woman had been "vaccinated and had immunity to dangerous infections with which she worked".

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

The majority of pediatric flu deaths in the most recent season occurred among those who weren’t fully vaccinated, according to the agency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

But doing this would require millions of neutralization tests, which involved mixing blood serum from newly vaccinated children with live poliovirus and cells in culture.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

A week after the Facebook page was shuttered, she said she remained undecided about vaccinating her children, explaining that she and her husband worried about possible side effects.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

But the CDC does recommend vaccinating infants when they are between 6 and 11 months old if they’re either traveling internationally or at risk of measles exposure during an outbreak.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

But in 2026, her daughter has reached the age when Australia begins vaccinating children in its bid to eliminate the disease that will eventually take her mother's life.

From BBC ● May 1, 2026

It doesn’t want to spend money vaccinating children against bugs they are unlikely to encounter, even if they could be hospitalized if they do.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026

They frantically tried to create an epidemiological “firebreak” by vaccinating ahead of the disease.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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