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inoculate someone against something to immunize someone against a disease. We need to inoculate all the children against whooping cough. Have you been inoculated against measles? See also: against inoculate someone with something to use a particular substance in immunizing someone against a disease. Donna inoculated Richard and Nancy with yellow fever vaccine for their trip. She also inoculated Sam with something to prevent malaria. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Perhaps large-scale efforts directed toward elimination of the mosquito in populated areas are reducing beneficial, insectborne inoculations worldwide. With soldiers and health care workers receiving smallpox inoculations under President Bush's bioterror prevention program, many Americans are considering whether to receive vaccinations if they become more widely available. One week before the VEEV inoculations, all horses were treated with insecticide to eliminate external parasites, and their temperature and blood counts were recorded 3 days before the viral inoculations. |
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