The inoculation program will also target medical staff and key workers, including police officers, soldiers and quarantine officials.
Anti-virus software has long played up its medical overtones, with talk of vaccination and inoculation, and logos involving syringes.
For decades, the prevailing myth has been that ignoring the threat of regulators is the safest inoculation against them.
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It was made the same way as the yearly flu vaccine, a painstaking process involving the inoculation of hen eggs.
Over the past seven years the price for the standard five-germ inoculation (including diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough) has dropped 40%.
It probably does not matter if some silk gets into a vaccine when it is dissolved in water prior to inoculation.
Supplies are not expected until late October, and require some five weeks from the first inoculation -- two are required -- before they become effective.
Besides, the DeLay camp says, a vote to impeach the President is the perfect inoculation for moderate Republicans under assault from conservatives in their districts.
The vaccine was created by taking a glycoprotein antigen from the rabies virus and inserting it into Vaccinia virus, the same one used for smallpox inoculation.
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The independent Rudolf Steiner and the town's King Edward VI Community College both said they were "neutral on the question of inoculation and don't actively advocate vaccination".
Smallpox inoculation saved many lives but was not without risk.
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The vaccine appears to sidestep HIV's bedeviling ability to mutate and evade capture by the human immune system, a trait that has stymied efforts to concoct an effective inoculation.
Washington decided to give his troops the then-available version of inoculation, which was so crude it could take the lives of close to 5% of those undergoing the treatment.
She makes sure to keep her tetanus inoculation current.
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An officer pulled him out of a queue for picking up papers to vaccinate his mother for her trip to Saudi Arabia for Haj, arranged for her inoculation quickly, and remained in touch with him.
Vaccines are unlikely to help much this year, because supplies are not expected until late October and require about five weeks from the first inoculation -- two are required -- before they become effective.
He invented a jet inoculation gun, able to give 1, 000 vaccinations an hour and credited with saving many lives in Africa (a photo of Hingson with Nobel laureate Albert Schweitzer hangs in the BBF office).
Merck's other bit of good tidings this week was that its AIDS vaccine seems to work better when combined with another HIV inoculation form Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ).
Chan said she would recommend that vaccine manufacturers proceed with mass production of an inoculation against the new swine flu strain as soon as they finish production of seasonal vaccine, which she estimated would be complete in about two weeks.
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Though researchers had originally expected it would take 21 days from the time of inoculation for the vaccine to induce an immune response robust enough to confer protection, they were pleasantly surprised when the first trials found that protection occurred in eight to 10 days for most people older than 9 years of age.
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