"vaccine" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it any time you are describing something related to immunology or medicine. For example: "The doctor informed me that I needed to get a vaccine for protection against the flu."
Dutton said he had talked to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and with the biotechnology and vaccine company CSL "about work that we might be able to partner in and we'll have something further to say about that in due course".
The report touched on an issue that continues to divide scientific opinion – whether it is ethical to run a clinical trial in west Africa in which some people with Ebola get an experimental drug or vaccine, while others get a placebo.
In Kaduna state, where the vaccine was banned last year, officials relented on Monday and allowed the programme to go ahead.
NHS Choices says the nasal spray is safer and more effective than the injected vaccine and has only minor side-effects such as a runny nose, fever, muscle ache and headache.
In the near term, the recent US government order for H1N1 pandemic flu vaccine with a novel adjuvant may suggest there is some hope for approval of Glaxo's Cervarix in the second half.
He works with the team developing GSK's malaria candidate vaccine.
Messenger, in her book, claims that "often today, we are being bombarded with messages from vested interests to fear all diseases in order for someone to sell some potion or vaccine, when, in fact, history shows that in industrialised countries, these diseases are quite benign and, according to natural health sources, beneficial to the body".
At a time when whooping cough was killing almost 6,000 American children a year, the pair worked tirelessly to create the vaccine.
"The magnitude of the immune responses observed in the vaccine recipients were less than those observed in monkeys that were protected from experimental Ebola virus infection, but we don't fully understand what degree of immunity humans require in order to protect them from infection.
Several trials of the GSK/NIH vaccine have been fast-tracked in the US, UK, Mali and Switzerland in response to the Ebola outbreak.
The vaccine was found to generate immunity with levels of antibodies increasing over a period of 28 days.
