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  • verb Present participle of immunise.

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Examples

  • If the government have done all they can to ensure our swine flu immunisation programme is as effective and quick as possible, can we ask them why they started immunising people in Australia three weeks ago and we have yet to start in the UK?

    Another Swine flu question ? Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • If the government have done all they can to ensure our swine flu immunisation programme is as effective and quick as possible, can we ask them why they started immunising people in Australia three weeks ago and we have yet to start in the UK?

    Archive 2009-10-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • Tell us your psychological mind tricks for immunising yourself to the reality distortion field in the comments.

    How Do You Deal with Gadget Lust? | Lifehacker Australia 2008

  • Tell us your psychological mind tricks for immunising yourself to the reality distortion field in the comments.

    How Do You Deal with Gadget Lust? | Lifehacker Australia 2008

  • The only thing that has prevented me from accepting fundamentalist perspectives other than questions of honesty/ intellectual integrity is, I think, an instinctive embrace of the mystical tradition, which was God's gracious way of immunising me against absolutism.

    Getting personal with fundamentalism Sam Norton 2006

  • Among the deliverables achieved: the building of 15 new schools in six months; implementation of a spatial database for land reform; deworming and immunising thousands of carthorses, dogs and cats; partly ridding De Doorns of the bucket system; and bringing down the crime rate in Khayelitsha.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • However TB is indiscriminate, so as one of the fastest growing contagious diseases we would be better served by immunising everyone not just select groups.

    Immunisation restrictions? 2006

  • Not immunising your child does your child and your community a disservice.

    poxy 2006

  • New research by the UK's Medical Research Council has shown that routinely immunising infants against the haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) bacteria has virtually eliminated Hib in Gambia.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • The study, which will be published in the Lancet online medical journal, proved that routinely immunising children with the Hib vaccine in developing countries would help save lives.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

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