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A substance given to stimulate the body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease without causing the disease itself in the treatment, prepared from the agent that causes the disease (or a related, also effective, but safer disease), or a synthetic substitute.

In 1879 a vaccine for cholera was invented.

In 1935, a vaccine for yellow fever was created.

Researchers also discovered the vaccine was able to restore normal blood sugar levels without using insulin.

In 1921, a tuberculosis vaccine was developed in France.

And Jenner had created this vaccine for smallpox without even understanding the basics of germ theory!

Dialysis came a few years later, then chemotherapy, then the defibrillator, then the polio vaccine; then came cloning, then a kidney transplant.

The 1990s brought us a hepatitis A vaccine and artificial muscles.

In the 1920s, we got a vaccine for diphtheria, pertussis, tuberculosis, and tetanus.

Partly on account of his inability to share in the amusements of his fellows by reason of a deformity due to vaccine poisoning before he was five (the poison permanently arresting the growth and development of his legs), he was an eager student, and in 1814 he graduated at the College of South Carolina with the highest rank in his class and with a reputation throughout the state for scholarship and eloquence.

The vaccine is injected into the upper arm.

The risk of side effects also increases with the number of vaccine doses.

In Mozambique I have visited the factory where in a clinic they are successfully testing the first ever anti malaria preventive vaccine.

A stable vaccine was developed, our understanding of the disease expanded, and technology moved forward.

The meningococcal vaccine contains inactivated bacteria and cannot cause the disease.

The purpose of any vaccine is to prevent disease.

Less likely is an allergic reaction to the vaccine.

If the amounts of vaccine used and the times of the injection are suitably chosen, there may thus be produced by a series of steps a rise of the opsonic index to a high level.

One of the chief objects in registering the opsonic power in such cases is to avoid the introduction of additional vaccine when the opsonic index is low, that is, during the negative phase, as if this were done a further diminution of the opsonic action might result.

The vaccine is suspended in the aqueous phase of an oil adjuvant emulsion.

Thanks to Jenner, Nelmes, Blossom, and Phipps (which sounds like a rather odd law firm), today we have the word "vaccine."

The meningococcal meningitis vaccine is given by injection (shots) to provide immunization against meningococcal disease and meningitis caused by the bacterium Neisseria meningitides.

Medical conditions and medications that suppress the immune system can interfere with antibody production in response to a rabies vaccine.

The vaccine is usually made by sterilizing a virulent culture and the proper dose is ascertained by noting 'the extent to which the power of the leucocytes to envelop and digest the microbes is increased.

The effect of the injection of a small quantity of vaccine is usually to produce an increase in the opsonic index within a few days.

President Armando Guebuza administered the first doses of the vaccine in the Maputo suburb of Mavalane as the symbolic launch of the campaign.

The whooping cough vaccine contains thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used in vaccines.

Prior to the research, no proven vaccine existed for the deadly botulism toxin.

Presentation Tetanus toxoid Concentrated is an inactivated vaccine containing 150 I.U. per dose (1 ml) purified tetanus toxoid.

There was no vaccine for endemic typhus in the Great War.

Previously vaccinated animals should receive a single booster dose of vaccine each year.

Carefully attach the vial of reconstituted vaccine to the injection equipment and avoid creating aerosols during the priming process.

With a grant from the National Foundation for Infant Paralysis, he went to work on a polio vaccine.

A valid certificate showing that the quadrivalent vaccine has been received is now a requirement for pilgrims to enter Saudi Arabia.

At age 11 or 12, Td vaccine (tetanus and diphtheria) should be given if at least five years have elapsed since the last dose of DTaP.

All infants should also receive a series of three hepatitis B vaccine injections as part of their routine immunizations.

Children who are mildly ill at the time the shot is due can still get meningococcal vaccine.

Pregnant women should not receive the vaccine because it may affect the fetus.

Children who get the meningitis vaccine may have mild side effects, such as tenderness, redness, or a painful lump on the skin at the injection site; symptoms usually last one to two days.

A small percentage of the patients who receive the vaccine develop a slight fever.

The meningitis vaccine, like any other injection, may in rare cases lead to a serious allergic reaction.

A health-care provider should file a report using the vaccine adverse events reporting system (VAERS) form.

If the vaccine is given to children receiving immunosuppressive therapy, as in chemotherapy for cancer or HIV/AIDs, the immune response may not take place.

Rabies is fatal in humans unless it is prevented with a vaccine.

The French scientist Louis Pasteur developed the first vaccine against rabies.

The vaccine consists of killed rabies virus that, when injected, induces the child's immune system to produce antibodies that bind to and destroy the virus.

A second type of rabies vaccine, rabies immune globulin (RIG), provides immediate, short-term protection after exposure to the virus.

Purified chick embryo cell (PCEC) vaccine became available in the United States in 1997.

Rabies vaccine adsorbed (RVA) is manufactured from virus grown in cell cultures of fetal rhesus monkey lung cells and then inactivated.

Human rabies immune globulin (RIG, HRIG) is a vaccine made from human serum that contains high levels of antibodies against rabies.

The size and number of vaccine doses are the same for children and adults.