unimmunized
- a word derived from immunized.
Example Sentences
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As recent outbreaks show, measles can spread quickly if it gets into pockets of unimmunized communities, and babies too young to be vaccinated can be at risk for serious illness and death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
Wendy Hasson, a pediatric intensive care physician in Oregon, knows the tragedy that can befall an unimmunized child.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022
“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
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
