inoculation

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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

To his parents, the skills Trey was learning and his passion for the work felt like an inoculation against a deadly threat.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023

Other prisoners said he was lucky and would never get it again—that a mild case was like an inoculation.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren