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  • We were unable to discover either a vaccine or a treatment for the Flare.†   (source)
  • In junior high school, Flom took the entrance exam for the elite Townsend Harris public high school on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, a school that in just forty years of existence produced three Nobel Prize winners, six Pulitzer Prize winners, and one Supreme Court Justice, not to mention George Gershwin and Jonas Salk, the inventor of the polio vaccine.†   (source)
  • Our research team is determined to find a vaccine for this disease that has now taken one of my parents and threatens to take the other, as well as tens of thousands of our citizens.†   (source)
  • Ask them if they're sure they've got access to vaccine back at their barracks because they'll need a jab if they get close to me.†   (source)
  • MD Anderson is even supposed to start testing a vaccine in November—not for prevention like most vaccines, but for treatment—and the preliminary data has shown good results.†   (source)
  • There were teachers and nurses on board, with boxes of smallpox vaccine.†   (source)
  • He had pouted for three days after she had taken him to get the vaccines he should have had as a child.†   (source)
  • Although I was born the year Dr. Jonas Salk made his blessed discovery of a vaccine, I can remember parents during my youth who still wouldn't let their children go into a public swimming pool.†   (source)
  • "We'll get them fixed right away," her mother said, and that began what was a very strange night, during which Mae's parents agreed readily with all of Mae's arguments about transparency, nodded their heads vigorously when she talked about the necessity for everyone to be on board, the corollary to vaccines, how they only worked with full participation.†   (source)
  • This is the gender that invented the polio vaccine?†   (source)
  • The chief subject of conversation among both rich and poor was typhus; the poor simply wondered when they would die of it, while the rich wondered how to get hold of Dr Weigel's vaccine and protect themselves.†   (source)
  • They could not tolerate the young newcomer's tasting a patient's urine to determine the presence of sugar, quoting Charcot and Trousseau as if they were his roommates, issuing severe warnings in class against the mortal risks of vaccines while maintaining a suspicious faith in the recent invention of suppositories.†   (source)
  • A few days later the young man called to say he'd found one, an international entity called the Green Light Committee, established to control the distribution of meningococcal vaccine.†   (source)
  • Dogs, more susceptible than their human masters, cannot even hope for complete protection from the inactivatedvirus vaccine which every veterinarian administers.†   (source)
  • The virus erupted there in 1967, in a factory called the Behring Works, which produced vaccines using kidney cells from African green monkeys.†   (source)
  • Scientists have been trying to figure out what causes the sequence of physical events that lead to vampyrism for years, hoping that if they figure it out they could cure it, or at the very least invent a vaccine to fight against it.†   (source)
  • What's the word I'm looking for that sounds like you're getting injected with a vaccine in the fleshy part of your arm?†   (source)
  • The United Nations and the aid bureaucracies have undertaken a relentless search for technical solutions--including improved vaccines and new processes for boring wells--and those are important.†   (source)
  • A vaccine for polio had been developed, though it had yet to make its way to Africa.†   (source)
  • The company was best known for its handling of deadly viruses in the process of creating vaccines.†   (source)
  • "She might not be Nina," he admitted, hating Barbara for this relentless insistence, even though he knew that she was genuinely concerned for him, that she was prescribing this pill of reality as a vaccine against the total collapse that he might experience if his hopes, in the end, were not realized.†   (source)
  • "Though polio cases have surged in recent years, we now see hope for a vaccine to prevent this dread disease," Mr. Stein said.†   (source)
  • But they saw other things, too, better things: the end of two world wars, the polio vaccine, passage of the civil rights laws.†   (source)
  • But most in most of the Western countries got the vaccines in time.†   (source)
  • What had happened in medicine since the polio vaccine?†   (source)
  • What happens now without vaccine?†   (source)
  • And that's this: my research team is on the verge of announcing a vaccine against"—and here he paused and ceremoniously spelled out the word, so touched with fear in those days, in all of its involute syllables—"pol-i-o-my-e-li-tis."†   (source)
  • The vaccine consisted of live rabies virus, genetically modified to be nonvirulent.†   (source)
  • With those cells, scientists helped prove the Salk vaccine effective.†   (source)
  • Then they develop an equivalent vaccine and cure for it.†   (source)
  • Hired by Biosyn, he had conducted the controversial rabies vaccine test in Chile.†   (source)
  • These discoveries would help lead to an HPV vaccine, and eventually earn zur Hausen a Nobel Prize.†   (source)
  • One of these days, a virus will get out of hand, and no vaccine or cure will be able to stop it.†   (source)
  • How can they predict which vaccine they'll need?"†   (source)
  • Don't you find it strange that they can make vaccines that match the new plague that's popped up?†   (source)
  • In contrast, a $1 vaccine can save a child's life.†   (source)
  • You think it'll bring us one minute closer to an antivirus or a vaccine?†   (source)
  • A Level 4 hot agent is a lethal virus for which there is no vaccine and no cure.†   (source)
  • There was a vaccine for it, and a series of injections was the prescribed method of treatment.†   (source)
  • It wasn t your vaccine that caused any of this.†   (source)
  • These people heated the vaccine to precisely 179.†   (source)
  • But my blood, the blood of any person with plants, should serve as a vaccine.†   (source)
  • And then, if you didn't get the vaccine, you died.†   (source)
  • This Raison Vaccine is going to mutate and kill us all like a bunch of rats?†   (source)
  • Unless we find a vaccine or something, we are in a load of hurt.†   (source)
  • It was what a man did with your vaccine.†   (source)
  • It specializes in drugs, vaccines, and biocontainment.†   (source)
  • As one leader in the development field said: "Vaccines are cost-effective.†   (source)
  • Britain reports that some thirty percent of their 'ethnic minorities' are rejecting vaccines.†   (source)
  • They thought it was a good thing, a vaccine, but it mutated under intense heat and became a virus.†   (source)
  • There aren't any vaccines for Level 4 hot agents.†   (source)
  • Yes, I know all about your vaccine actually being a virus; you told me that in Bangkok.†   (source)
  • Pasteur developed vaccines for anthrax and rabies.†   (source)
  • I was attempting to help her understand how dangerous her vaccine really was.†   (source)
  • What you will get is a call demanding either information or samples of the vaccine.†   (source)
  • There is little or no way to get past the current vaccines.†   (source)
  • Carlos would follow as soon as he had the vaccine.†   (source)
  • If the terrorists keep with their determination to reject the vaccines?†   (source)
  • Maybe not, but you do know that my vaccine was actually a virus that-†   (source)
  • No other shipments of the vaccine had been released.†   (source)
  • If the situation warrants, I will want the Raison Vaccine itself, by whatever means.†   (source)
  • It wasn't just heating the vaccine to a precise heat; it was holding it there for two hours.†   (source)
  • Once he does his damage, our only hope will ride with an antivirus and a vaccine.†   (source)
  • The number of nucleotide base pairs in the HIV vaccine.†   (source)
  • If it takes us months to create a vaccine or an antivirus, how is it they have one?†   (source)
  • Depends on whether they actually plan on shipping the vaccine tomorrow.†   (source)
  • This was the one who'd first made the Raison Vaccine.†   (source)
  • He got the information from his dreams, the same place he learned that the Raison Vaccine-†   (source)
  • A model of her own Raison Vaccine filled one corner of the screen.†   (source)
  • Getting a vaccine out to six billion people isn't an easy chore.†   (source)
  • Then I'll give them what they want and keep what I need to re-produce the vaccine.†   (source)
  • I was the one who told the world how your vaccine could be changed into the virus it's become.†   (source)
  • The switch may have mutated along with the vaccine.†   (source)
  • We know that you engineer a back door into your vaccines.†   (source)
  • Dubbed the Raison Vaccine, the vaccine promises to revolutionize preventive medicine.†   (source)
  • We call it a DNA vaccine, but in reality it's actually an engineered virus.†   (source)
  • Have you submitted the vaccine to intense heat, Miss de Raison?†   (source)
  • It's an airborne multi-purpose vaccine that was supposed to enter the market today.†   (source)
  • It was a vaccine that mutated into a virus under extreme heat.†   (source)
  • The Raison Vaccine is a real vaccine, and Joy Flyer is a real horse!†   (source)
  • Do you know what happens to your Raison Vaccine when it's heated to 179.†   (source)
  • You do remember a report three months ago about unsustainable mutations of the vaccine.†   (source)
  • You're the one who wants the vaccine," Thomas said.†   (source)
  • All I want is for you to have the vaccine checked out.†   (source)
  • The vaccine fell into the hands of some very …. disturbed people.†   (source)
  • Monique submitted the vaccine to the most ardent series of tests, I assure you.†   (source)
  • It's an airborne vaccine about to hit the market.†   (source)
  • What do you want me to do, inform the world that my vaccine is actually a deadly virus?†   (source)
  • But if you have an antivirus, a cure or a vaccine to the virus, you can "Control it," Kara finished.†   (source)
  • You've created the vaccine, and you've provided more research than I could have hoped for.†   (source)
  • Fact: Monique had been kidnapped again by someone else who now wanted the Raison Vaccine.†   (source)
  • -when a vaccine overheats and turns into a deadly virus.†   (source)
  • I wasn't aware their vaccine held any promise for us," he said.†   (source)
  • Until a vaccine is approved by the international community, she keeps the key to herself.†   (source)
  • You've never tested the vaccine under such adverse conditions; there'd be no need to.†   (source)
  • Our vaccine begins to spoil at 35 degrees centigrade.†   (source)
  • I also know that the Raison Vaccine will mutate under extreme heat and become quite deadly.†   (source)
  • Yes, the vaccine to the AIDS virus has 375,200 base pairs …. isn't that what this Hunter told you?†   (source)
  • Dubbed the Raison Vaccine Kara uttered a short gasp at the same time Tom read the sentence.†   (source)
  • You have a vaccine; we should be inoculated at once!†   (source)
  • I had the under-standing the FDA was ready to approve this vaccine next week.†   (source)
  • And he says he knows something about this Raison Vaccine.†   (source)
  • "The number of nucleotide base pairs that deal specifically with HIV in my vaccine," she said.†   (source)
  • Would you call it off and destroy the vaccine?†   (source)
  • The timing couldn't have been worse-they'd just announced their new vaccine.†   (source)
  • And we have to convince them to destroy any existing samples of the vaccine.†   (source)
  • Yes, of course; the Raison Vaccine will mutate and infect untold millions.†   (source)
  • I know you have a unique interest in vaccines, but how does this affect us?†   (source)
  • No regulation or protocol even suggests testing vaccines at such a high temperature.†   (source)
  • It wouldn't make any sense to you, unless you understand vaccines.†   (source)
  • FedEx said they had to stop operations in China, even delivery of vaccines for the bird flu outbreak, and now Anonymous is threatening to attack them in retaliation.†   (source)
  • But one of the major functions of his Third World missionaries was to go out into the hinterlands and vaccinate people-and there was more than just vaccine in those needles.†   (source)
  • I could easily have got hold of such a certificate, but again, as with the typhus vaccine, just for myself.†   (source)
  • He told me that within a week, she'd brought Tim to MD Anderson and learned that Tim was an ideal candidate for the vaccine trial MD Anderson planned to start in November.†   (source)
  • "We are told that everything is being done to ensure His Imperial Majesty's comfort at this time, and palace officials tell us that researchers are working nonstop in their search for a vaccine.†   (source)
  • The tools for diagnosing the disease were antique; no large campaign had been launched to find a fully effective vaccine; and the newest of the antituberculous drugs had been developed twenty-five years ago.†   (source)
  • MD Anderson is even supposed to start testing a vaccine in November—not for prevention like most vaccines, but for treatment—and the preliminary data has shown good results.†   (source)
  • I only know that he lived, thank God, and once he had told the Germans the secret of his vaccine and was no longer useful to them, by some miracle they did not finally consign him to the most wonderful of all gas chambers.†   (source)
  • It was said they had offered him a fine laboratory and a wonderful villa with an equally wonderful car, after placing him under the wonderful supervision of the Gestapo to make sure he did not run away rather than making as much vaccine as possible for the louse-infested German army in the east.†   (source)
  • But they don't never explain more than just sayin, Yeah, your mother was on the moon, she been in nuclear bombs and made that polio vaccine.†   (source)
  • They simply released the vaccine.†   (source)
  • The laser, the transistor the polio vaccine, the microchip, the hologram, the personal computer, magnetic resonance imaging, CAT scans-the list goes on and on.†   (source)
  • When Southam reported his results, the press hailed them as a tremendous breakthrough that could someday lead to a cancer vaccine.†   (source)
  • A hundred years ago, we didn't have cars and airplanes and computers and vaccines…… It was a whole different world.†   (source)
  • One had used them to grow a vaccine for a common-cold-like virus, which he'd injected—along with bits of HeLa—into more than four hundred people.†   (source)
  • If the vaccine worked, the serum from a vaccinated child's blood would block the poliovirus and protect the cells.†   (source)
  • Researchers raced to find what they believed to be the elusive cancer virus, with hopes of developing a vaccine to prevent it.†   (source)
  • "I didn't know about that, but the other day President Clinton said the polio vaccine is one of the most important things that happened in the twentieth century, and her cells involved with that too."†   (source)
  • With the help of Slavin's serum, Blumberg eventually uncovered the link between hepatitis B and liver cancer, and created the first hepatitis B vaccine, saving millions of lives.†   (source)
  • She made lists of questions for me and printed articles about research done on people without their knowledge or consent—from a vaccine trial in Uganda to the testing of drugs on U.S. troops.†   (source)
  • They also carried a rare virus called HTLV, a distant cousin of the HIV virus, which researchers hoped to use to create a vaccine that could stop the AIDS epidemic.†   (source)
  • Instead he told her about Henrietta's cells being used for the polio vaccine and genetic research; he said they'd gone up in early space missions and been used in atomic bomb testing.†   (source)
  • This discovery meant that if HeLa was susceptible to poliovirus, which not all cells were, it would solve the mass-production problem and make it possible to test the vaccine without millions of monkey cells.†   (source)
  • Researchers around the world were working to develop a vaccine for hepatitis B, and doing so required a steady supply of antibodies like Slavin's, which pharmaceutical companies were willing to pay large sums for.†   (source)
  • The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP)—a charity created by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who'd himself been paralyzed by polio—began organizing the largest field trial ever conducted to test the polio vaccine.†   (source)
  • In February 1952, Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh announced that he'd developed the world's first polio vaccine, but he couldn't begin offering it to children until he'd tested it on a large scale to prove it was safe and effective.†   (source)
  • "There is the possible danger," Southam wrote, "of initiating neo-plastic disease by accidental inoculation during laboratory investigation, or by injection with such cells or cell products if they should be used for production of virus vaccine."†   (source)
  • I've tried to imagine how she'd feel knowing that her cells went up in the first space missions to see what would happen to human cells in zero gravity, or that they helped with some of the most important advances in medicine: the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization.†   (source)
  • Chapter 13: The HeLa Factory For further reading on the history of the polio vaccine, see The Virus and the Vaccine, by Debbie Bookchin and Jim Shumacher; Polio: An American Story, by David M. Oshinski; Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio, by Jeffrey Kluger; and The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Crisis in Vaccines, by Paul Offit.†   (source)
  • From her cells came all these different creations—medical miracles like polio vaccines, some cure for cancer and other things, even AIDS.†   (source)
  • Without those tissues, we would have no tests for diseases like hepatitis and HIV; no vaccines for rabies, smallpox, measles; none of the promising new drugs for leukemia, breast cancer, colon cancer.†   (source)
  • Chapter 13: The HeLa Factory For further reading on the history of the polio vaccine, see The Virus and the Vaccine, by Debbie Bookchin and Jim Shumacher; Polio: An American Story, by David M. Oshinski; Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio, by Jeffrey Kluger; and The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Crisis in Vaccines, by Paul Offit.†   (source)
  • He'd been giving himself and patients intravenous injections of vaccines made from HeLa cells, which he'd gotten from George Gey's lab in such enormous quantities, they joked that instead of injecting them, Björklund could just fill a pool with HeLa—or maybe even a lake—and swim around in it for immunity.†   (source)
  • But you have to understand that we're dealing with a mutation of a genetically engineered vaccine here-literally billions of DNA and RNA pairs.†   (source)
  • Although her backdoor antivirus proved to be insufficient, Monique had brought one critical piece of information back with her: the gene manipulations she'd designed when creating the Raison Vaccine were at least one part of the antivirus.†   (source)
  • The Johns Hopkins program was devised to evaluate "studies of actual or potential injuries and illnesses, studies on diseases of potential biological-warfare significance, and evaluation of certain chemical and immunological responses to certain toxoids and vaccines."†   (source)
  • Yes, it might be the era of the kidney transplant in America and a vaccine for polio due to arrive even in India, but here Hema felt she'd tricked time; with her twentieth-century knowledge she had traveled back to an earlier epoch.†   (source)
  • UNICEF gives vaccines.†   (source)
  • If the virus killed nine out of ten people it infected and there was no vaccine or cure for it, you could see the possibilities.†   (source)
  • There was no vaccine for Ebola.†   (source)
  • Any uni-vaccine that could be simply tricked into allowing a wide-spread retrovirus to correct the …. change would be, of course, useless.†   (source)
  • The first person known to be infected with the Marburg agent was a man called Klaus F., an employee at the Behring Works vaccine factory who fed the monkeys and washed their cages.†   (source)
  • Both of mine got the vaccine.†   (source)
  • There is no known vaccine.†   (source)
  • According to standard doctrine, there are basically three ways to stop a virus—vaccines, drugs, and biocontainment.†   (source)
  • He performed research on defenses against hot viruses—vaccines, drug treatments—and he did basic medical research on rain-forest viruses.†   (source)
  • The fact that the virus mutates rapidly means that vaccines for it will be very difficult to develop.†   (source)
  • It devoted itself to developing protective vaccines, and it concentrated on basic research into ways to control lethal microorganisms.†   (source)
  • At the Institute, there are always a number of programs going on simultaneously—research into vaccines for various kinds of bacteria, such as anthrax and botulism, research into the characteristics of viruses that might infect American troops, either naturally or in the form of a battlefield weapon.†   (source)
  • It was true, a man named Valborg Svensson had released a virus that had mutated from the Raison Vaccine.†   (source)
  • The first would be for her to identify the signature she had engineered into her vaccine to turn it off, as it were.†   (source)
  • Raison Pharmaceutical, the creator of the vaccine from which the virus was adapted, is providing us with every-thing they have.†   (source)
  • Surely he understood that her signature might not have survived, or that it might not work on the mutated vaccine.†   (source)
  • We need you to identify this back door, verify that it hasn't mutated with the vaccine, and then create the virus that will turn the Raison Strain off.†   (source)
  • News about a highly virulent outbreak of a mutated viral vaccine, dubbed the Raison Strain, on a small island south of Java had hit the wires yesterday morning, and the wires were burning hot.†   (source)
  • Below it, a model of the Raison Strain, a mutation that had survived after the vaccine had been subjected to intense heat for two hours, exactly as Thomas had predicted.†   (source)
  • She'd developed a simple way to introduce an airborne agent into the vicinity of the vaccine-a virus that would essentially neutralize the vaccine by inserting its own DNA into the mix and rendering the vaccine impotent.†   (source)
  • Ironically, her own genetic engineering, designed to keep the vaccine viable for long periods without contacting any host or moisture, had allowed the inert vaccine to mutate in such adverse conditions.†   (source)
  • If she could find the specific gene she'd engineered, and if it had survived the mutation, then introducing the virus she'd already developed to neutralize the vaccine might also render the Raison Strain impotent.†   (source)
  • It seems there's a question about the stability of the Raison Vaccine, the real subject of this kidnapping.†   (source)
  • They've …. they've given me seventy-two hours to turn over all our research and all existing samples of the vaccine, or they will kill her.†   (source)
  • Tom learned that Joy Flyer was going to win from the same source that gave him these details about the Raison Vaccine.†   (source)
  • The vaccine never would have mutated because no natural cause would ever produce a heat high enough to trigger the mutation.†   (source)
  • Let's just say the incident in Bangkok has exposed the possibility, however slight, that the vaccine may not be stable.†   (source)
  • Your Raison Vaccine becomes my Raison Strain, a highly infectious, airborne virus with a three-week incubation period.†   (source)
  • "Assuming you're right about Svensson," Gains said, "he would need a vaccine or an antivirus to trade, right?†   (source)
  • Send out a bulletin that announces the fuzzy white bats have issued a warning about the Raison Vaccine?†   (source)
  • "The Raison Vaccine has been touted in private circles for a few months now "Not in his private circles."†   (source)
  • You actually gave them the vaccine?†   (source)
  • "Your vaccine is a virus?" he demanded.†   (source)
  • Suffice it to say there is no way Thomas Hunter could have known that the Raison Vaccine was subject to unsustainable mutations.†   (source)
  • But also a vaccine, though unlike traditional vaccines, which are usually based on weaker strains of an actual disease organism.†   (source)
  • "One virus, one vaccine, and one man with the will to use both," Svensson said, and then slowly turned to Carlos.†   (source)
  • Everyone thinks it's a vaccine, but it mutates under intense heat and will ravage the world sometime in 2010.†   (source)
  • They had been following the development of the vaccine for over a year with the help of an informant in the Raison labs.†   (source)
  • Fact: If his daughter hadn't died from a vaccine two years ago, henever would have spearheaded legislation to heighten scrutiny of new vaccines.†   (source)
  • They meticulously explored the most advanced science, and yet, in the end, it came down to a vaccine and a bit of luck.†   (source)
  • There's a problem with the vaccine.†   (source)
  • Two years had passed since his youngest daughter, Corina, had died of autoimmune disease after mistakenly being administered a new AIDS vaccine.†   (source)
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