Sabin vaccine

noun

Sa·​bin vaccine ˈsā-bin- How to pronounce Sabin vaccine (audio)
: a polio vaccine that contains three serotypes of poliovirus in a weakened, live state and is administered orally compare salk vaccine

Examples of Sabin vaccine in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The component of the Sabin vaccine that most frequently regained the power to paralyze was the part that targeted type 2 polio. Helen Branswell, STAT, 26 May 2023 In 2022, nearly 800 children or young adults in roughly two dozen countries developed paralytic polio after being infected with one of the vaccine viruses from the Sabin vaccines. Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Mar. 2023 Martinello said the cases likely were caught from the oral Sabin vaccine, introduced in 1960, which contained weakened live virus. Hartford Courant, 13 Sep. 2022 The Sabin vaccine takes advantage of that process: The vaccine virus replicates in a child, gets pooped out, and spreads its protection to unvaccinated neighbors. Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2022 Cold War tensions raised suspicion about the Sabin vaccine, but in 1961, the American Medical Association finally recommended its use over the Salk vaccine. Thomas Balcerski, CNN, 11 June 2021 The vaccinations were easier with the Sabin vaccine than the current coronavirus vaccines, since the Salk vaccine had already greatly reduced the threat of polio. Cameron Fields, cleveland, 13 Jan. 2021 The Sabin vaccine was created in the 1940s and ’50s by passaging the virus through animal cells until scientists found a suitably weakened form. Leslie Roberts, Science | AAAS, 10 Nov. 2020 When the Salk vaccine became available in 1955 — and again in the 1960s when it was replaced by the Sabin vaccine — Americans lined up in droves to receive it. New York Times, 12 Oct. 2020

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Word History

Etymology

after Albert Sabin, 1906–1993, American immunologist

First Known Use

1955, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of Sabin vaccine was in 1955

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Medical Definition

Sabin vaccine

noun
Sa·​bin vaccine ˈsā-bin- How to pronounce Sabin vaccine (audio)
: a polio vaccine that is taken by mouth and contains the three serotypes of poliovirus in a weakened, live state

called also Sabin oral vaccine

compare salk vaccine
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