Recent Examples on the WebStudents receiving a third dose of polio vaccine after the 4th birthday are not required to receive additional doses
3 doses of hepatitis B vaccine
4 doses of DTaP or another combination vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough)
2 doses of varicella (chickenpox) vaccine.—Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2024 Viruses like measles and varicella (which causes chickenpox) on average take longer than a week to incubate, so, by comparison, a three-day incubation period is already pretty fast.—Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 9 Jan. 2024 For example, a person can have immunity to the varicella virus that causes chickenpox—either via acquiring the infection as a child or through a vaccine.—Leah Groth, Health, 17 Nov. 2023 One dose of the vaccine is estimated as being 85% protective in preventing varicella infection and anywhere from 67 to 100% effective in preventing herpes zoster infection, a later reactivation of varicella infection (1).—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2016 See all Example Sentences for varicella
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Word History
Etymology
borrowed from New Latin, from vari- (in variolavariola) + Medieval Latin -cella, diminutive suffix (extracted from nouns such as nāvicella, diminutive of Latin nāvicula "boat," diminutive of nāvis "ship")
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