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Medicines and equipment can easily go missing or expire–as 1.3 million doses of pentavalent vaccine (a kind of vaccine that protects against five diseases) did in Pakistan in 2015.
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Brian M. Till, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2017
Our foundation and other partners worked with two vaccine companies in India -- Biological E Limited and Serum Institute of India -- to develop a pentavalent vaccine that would be affordable everywhere.
—Bill Gates, CNN, 13 Oct. 2021
The pentavalent vaccine -- which protects against five diseases (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type B) -- is a great example.
—Bill Gates, CNN, 13 Oct. 2021
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Brian M. Till, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2017
Our foundation and other partners worked with two vaccine companies in India -- Biological E Limited and Serum Institute of India -- to develop a pentavalent vaccine that would be affordable everywhere.
—Bill Gates, CNN, 13 Oct. 2021
The pentavalent vaccine -- which protects against five diseases (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type B) -- is a great example.
—Bill Gates, CNN, 13 Oct. 2021
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pentavalent
adjective
pen·ta·va·lent
ˌpent-ə-ˈvā-lənt 
: having a valence of five
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