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a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.

A biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease.

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Did Germany's Supreme Court rule that the measles virus didn't exist?

Paul Fassa writes in German Supreme Court Upholds Biologist’s Claim that Measles Virus Does Not Exist: At first it appeared he had lost. But Dr. Lanka took his loss to a higher court with more experts and the backing of two independent…
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Were only 10% of the population vaccinated against smallpox?

This image attributes a quote to Glen Dettman: "It is pathetic and ludicrous to say we ever vanquished smallpox with vaccines, when only 10% of the population was vaccinated." - Glen Dettman A.M.M., BA, Ph.D, F.A.P.M. Whether Dettman actually…
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Does the CDC own vaccine patents?

As a regular skeptic, I often get involved in arguments about vaccines. In a recent discussion this came up: The CDC owns 70 vaccine patents and makes billions of dollar off them A quick google search showed many results affirming this statement,…
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Did a study find that girls who received the DTP vaccine had ten times the death rate compared to unvaccinated girls?

Given Robert F. Kennedy Jr. current run, it's worth looking more specifically at his claims and this website is likely good to investigate a few of them. On of his repeated talking points that he voices during podcasts, he lays out in his book The…
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Did more than 900 people die of measles in Madagascar since October 2018?

I'm seeing a claim trending on social media that more than 900 people died of measles in Madagascar recently. I'm referring to this article, which opens with: Geneva: At least 922 people have died in a measles outbreak in Madagascar, the majority…
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Is this a real quote by M. Beddow Bayly and are the vaccination claims true?

"Compare these well vaccinated countries with Australia, the least vaccinated country in the world. In 134 years, not one-fifth of the children born have been vaccinated. Yet only three Australian children under five have died of that disease.…
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Is the WHO tetanus vaccination campaign a covert sterilisation campaign?

Lifesite News (a Canadian conservative Christian pro-life news source) reports: But it is the five-vaccination regime that is most alarming. “The only time tetanus vaccine has been given in five doses is when it is used as a carrier in fertility…
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Would measles be no great health risk in the US, even without vaccines?

According to this article, most of the drop in the measles death rate occurred in the United States prior to the introduction of vaccines because of better health care and nutrition. That fact is quoted here and summarized provocatively as, Note…
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Do any Covid-19 vaccines contain "nanoparticles" that can be detected in the blood afterwards and used to determine if a person has been vaccinated?

I spoke with my mom on the phone today and she told me of something she saw on the national TV recently (I don't watch TV). She says that some official person claimed that vaccines contain some sort of "nanoparticles" that remain in the body and can…
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Did diseases, decrease over 90% before the introduction of vaccines?

There is this meme going around, which is also used as an anti-vaccine argument, which basically states, that vaccines didn't save millions of lives, because most of the diseases declined by over 90% before the introduction of the vaccines, which…
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Have US Congress and US Supreme Court ruled vaccines to be "unavoidably unsafe"?

Connie Newcome, president of Kansans for Health Freedom said in testimony to the Kansas State Legislature: Vaccines are unavoidably unsafe - ruled as such by the US Congress and US Supreme Court. These unavoidably unsafe products, however, are…
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