unvaccinated
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Twenty-week-old Grayson easily could have become one of the tens of thousands of British babies left unvaccinated against polio.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Three unvaccinated people in the U.S. died of measles last year, the first known deaths from the disease since 2015.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
“More and more of the younger kids are showing up to school unvaccinated or undervaccinated, and therefore susceptible,” Roess said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
It’s because of a decline in measles vaccinations below the 95% generally considered to provide “herd immunity,” in which the disease is so rare that even unvaccinated individuals are protected from exposure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
But a study in the early 1960s of seven thousand unvaccinated smallpox cases in southern India found that the disease killed 43 percent of its victims.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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