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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Used in the treatment or as a preventive of plague: as, anti-plague serum.

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Examples

  • Kazakhstan alone has eight other anti-plague institutes and about 140 minor labs.

    In The Germ Labs 2007

  • Bakyt Atshabar has worked for the anti-plague Institute for more than 25 years, and for much of that time there was little need for security guards and fences and heavy metal doors with keypad locks.

    In The Germ Labs 2007

  • Institute, Yersin prepared an anti-plague horse serum which protected rabbits, rats and mice.

    The Pasteur Institute 1998

  • The government also exempted all anti-plague medicines including raw materials used to make them from customs duty.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • We are adopting anti-plague measures, preventive measures, using all kinds of products.

    Castro Closes Eighth National Assembly Session 1990

  • Brazil and I heard the story of a doctor who had given himself a preventive injection of anti-plague serum.

    Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • Some historians consider the ban an anti-plague measure, some a fire-prevention measure.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • In light of all this panic around a possible "pandemic," my seed-saving pal Damon recently reminded me of an herbal anti-viral elixir, the historic anti-plague remedy called "Four Thieves Vinegar."

    ARTHUR MAGAZINE - WE FOUND THE OTHERS 2009

  • Okay, so this bitch has been trying to write about all manner of things but my brain is still more than a wee bit befuddled by anti-plague meds.

    AngryBlackBitch 2009

  • Fix the kneading machine and make some bread, or mix up some anti-plague powder

    IGN PC 2008

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