VPD

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Noun

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VPD (plural VPDs)

  1. (medicine) Initialism of vaccine-preventable disease.
    • 2018, Erika Allen Wolters, Brent S. Steel, When Ideology Trumps Science: Why We Question the Experts on Everything from Climate Change to Vaccinations, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 76:
      We argued above that provaccination advocates would be more likely to use scientific studies and evidence of VPDs when compared to antivaccination advocates. While we did not assess the types of information sources people use for this issue, those with high levels of belief in vaccinations would at least be more open to the scientific literature on this topic.

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VPD

  1. (law enforcement) Initialism of Vancouver Police Department.
    1. (Canada) The police service of the city of Vancouver, in British Columbia, Canada.
    2. (US) The police service of the city of Vancouver, in the State of Washington, USA.

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