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vaccine

[vak-seen, vak-seen, -sin] / vækˈsin, ˈvæk sin, -sɪn /


NOUN
injection
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The Bexsero vaccine being offered in this one-off programme is given routinely to babies and infants and evidence suggests protection lasts at least six years.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Vaccine experts are assessing whether to expand the routine vaccine programme.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

This species of Ebola, the Bundibugyo virus, is harder to detect, and there is no vaccine for it.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026

There is no specific vaccine or treatment for the Bundibugyo Ebola strain behind the latest outbreak.

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

And a safe and effective vaccine was not developed until 1937.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy




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