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Given that the vaccines are presumed to work postexposure if given within 2 weeks of contact, this suggests that a single dose of MVA could prevent many cases of disease and slow spread.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 30, 2022

I got a postexposure test yesterday morning after waiting in a line that moved fast but stretched a quarter mile down Aurora Avenue.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2022

"It is possible that none of these health care workers were infected with Ebola virus. Therefore, we cannot know for sure whether or not postexposure prophylaxis prevented the onset of Ebola-virus disease," Jacobs said.

From US News • Aug. 25, 2015

The NewLink vaccine, for instance, may work as both a preexposure vaccine—given, like a childhood vaccine, to prevent infection—and as a postexposure treatment, in the way that rabies vaccine is generally used.

From Scientific American • Nov. 17, 2014

That might make such a drug useful for what is called postexposure prophylaxis — for example, after a person is stuck by an infected needle.

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2014