Example Sentences

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The rate of measles in the U.S. has been so low in recent years that the severity of the disease for the unimmunized can be deadly.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024

“We’re going to need really concerted investment and catch-up campaigns, because there’s a growing cohort of millions of children who are completely unimmunized living in countries that have high levels of malnutrition and other stresses.”

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2022

A failure to control the outbreak could have dire consequences in North Korea, considering its broken health care system and its rejection of internationally offered vaccines that has left a population of 26 million unimmunized.

From Seattle Times • May 17, 2022

It's still unclear if there will be another winter surge or if the virus is finally running out of the unimmunized bodies it needs to remain a serious threat.

From Salon • Oct. 12, 2021

The number of smallpox epidemics in Virginia did increase—again, as might be expected—later in the century as the number of children and of native-born unimmunized adults multiplied.

From Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Hughes, Thomas Proctor