smallpox vaccine

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A vaccine containing vaccinia virus suspensions that is inoculated subcutaneously to immunize against smallpox.

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The vaccine is delivered through a “carrier virus” that causes a common cold in chimpanzees but does not affect humans.
The Race for the Ebola Vaccine|Abby Haglage|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The need for an Ebola vaccine in West Africa has never been greater.
The Race for the Ebola Vaccine|Abby Haglage|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
With Ebola still raging in West Africa, the race to find a vaccine is heating up.
The Race for the Ebola Vaccine|Abby Haglage|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
On average, the vaccine has an efficacy of about 60 percent.
When You Get the Flu This Winter, You Can Blame Anti-Vaxxers|Kent Sepkowitz|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST

With enough changing of the influenza RNA over time, the vaccine no longer provokes the “right” immune response.
When You Get the Flu This Winter, You Can Blame Anti-Vaxxers|Kent Sepkowitz|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
To-day men of science are trying to conquer the horrors of cancer and smallpox, and rabies and consumption.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
British house of commons voted Dr. Jenner 10,000 for his discovery of the vaccine inoculation.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
This barkeeper had not been exposed to smallpox except by contact with the man mentioned here.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley
The unharmed had been present in sick-rooms or had even nursed the patients, not knowing that the disease was smallpox.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley
It does more: in 90 per centum of cases it will prevent successful infection with smallpox.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley