For other uses, see Vaccine (disambiguation). A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins or one of its surface proteins.
Gender: Male. Usage: Egil, of Norse origin, is not a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name. People having the name Egil are in general originating from Denmark, Norway, Sweden. Meaning:
Siward or Sigurd (/ËsuËwÉrd/ or more recently /ËsiËwÉrd/ ; Old English: Sigeweard) was an important earl of 11th-century northern England. The Old Norse nickname Digri and its Latin translation Grossus (the stout) are given to him by near-contemporary texts.