Sentence examples for vaccinate from inspiring English sources

For example, the U.S. government has enough smallpox vaccine to vaccinate the entire American population and enough anthrax vaccine to inoculate at least every member of the U.S. military.

The government is now worried that few of those inoculated have donated blood, which could be used to make antidotes for those who develop bad side-effects to the vaccine.In Britain, the government plans to vaccinate emergency workers and to stockpile a lot of vaccine, though it won't say how much.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation advises UK government departments on vaccination issues, and has a programme to vaccinate all children between the ages of two and 16, starting with the youngest.

MEASLES outbreaks in California and other western states, due in part to a trend in parents choosing not to vaccinate their children, have raised the question of whether vaccinations against certain diseases ought to be made mandatory.

In 1998 91% of two-year-olds were immunised, but by 2004 that had fallen to 80%, far below the 90% rate needed to keep the disease under control.Reluctance to vaccinate stems from a health scare surrounding MMR, a three-in-one vaccine designed to protect children from measles, mumps and rubella.

In September health workers in Iraq began an effort to vaccinate 4.8 million children, and in the northern area of The Sudan a vaccination effort that was to reach about 5 million children was begun in August.

If the government says, 'We have already eradicated polio,' then people think there is no need to vaccinate children".

"If you're told to go and vaccinate your children and don't do it, something will happen to you".

It plans to vaccinate as many as 20,000 people, which is twice as many as its previous target.

America has already acquired enough to vaccinate every American; Britain won't say whether it has or not.Grasping at a hot issue, the beleaguered Tories are suddenly insisting that they want a new cabinet minister for homeland security, modelled on what America has, to pull together government and intelligence services.

(I even, blush, agree with the purely moral arguments for spending relatively small sums to save the lives of women in childbirth, vaccinate children, buy bed nets against malaria and so on).