Smallpox Vaccines

Researchers describe findings in smallpox vaccines studies

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, April 12th, 2005

Smallpox vaccines research advances have been reported from the United States.

Study 1: Researchers review the safety of vaccinia immune globulin during pregnancy in women who discovered they were pregnant after receiving smallpox vaccination.

"Smallpox vaccination just before conception or during pregnancy can result, in rare instances, in fetal vaccinia from viral infection of the fetus. Approximately 50 cases have beer, documented, despite literally billions of people having been vaccinated. This live viral vaccine has a wider array of rare but serious medical side effects (e.g., eczema vaccinatum, progressive vaccinia, encephalitis,...

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