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What were non-immunizing vaccines called before? I've seen "intramuscular virus injection", but I don't think that was ever a layman's term. Have we not always
by epakai 4y ago
What were non-immunizing vaccines called before? I've seen "intramuscular virus injection", but I don't think that was ever a layman's term.
Have we not always had the concept of sterilising immunity, and therefore non-sterilising immunity?
To me this is just nuance being exposed, and word definitions being updated to include that nuance.
- the_third_wave 4y agoThey were called "non-immunising vaccines". viz. this article from 2001: Development of a non-immunising, paraspecific vaccine from attenuated pox viruses: a new type of vaccine https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12578306/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12578306/