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a substance (such as weakened or dead a disease-causing microorganism) injected into a person or animal to stimulate the production of antibodies to protect against a disease- Researchers are looking for an HIV vaccine.
vaccine = a substance (such as weakened or dead disease-causing microorganism) injected into a person or animal to stimulate the production of antibodies to protect against a disease
- Before setting out, Crake had stuck a needle in Jimmy's arm — an all-purpose, short-term vaccine he'd cooked himself.Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
- the public grew desperate for a vaccine.Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Social disruption was maximized, and development of a vaccine effectively prevented.Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
- Crake himself had developed a vaccine concurrently with the virus, but he had destroyed it prior to his assisted suicide death.Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
- Or did he know he wouldn't be able to withhold the formula for the vaccine, once the CorpSeCorps got to work on him?Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
- When are they going to have a vaccine?Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
- I bet he's got the vaccine for this and he's gonna hold us up for an arm and a leg.Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
- The antibody serum was in the pleeb vaccine.Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
- He'd shoot himself up with Crake's quicktime vaccine, and he had his own Corps bodyguard now, so it was quite safe.Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
- Polio vaccine.Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
- We were unable to discover either a vaccine or a treatment for the Flare.James Dashner -- The Death Cure
- The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything.John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars
- In the 1930s a vaccine was developed, but yellow fever still kills thousands of people a year in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South America.Laurie Halse Anderson -- Fever, 1793
- There were teachers and nurses on board, with boxes of smallpox vaccine.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
- What happens now without vaccine?Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
- But they saw other things, too, better things: the end of two world wars, the polio vaccine, passage of the civil rights laws.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
- Revolution is the vaccine of Jacquerie.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- How do they know what vaccines to give you every year?Marie Lu -- Legend
- But most in most of the Western countries got the vaccines in time.John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
vaccine = a substance that stimulates the production of antibodies to protect against disease
vaccine = a substance (such as weakened or dead disease-causing microorganism) injected into a person or animal to stimulate the production of antibodies to protect against a disease
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