Smallpox

Immune memory from vaccination lasts more than 50 years

Published in Vaccine Weekly, December 3rd, 2003

Immune memory after smallpox vaccination persists for at least 50 years in immunized people, according to research conducted by scientists at the Emory Vaccine Center and Emory University School of Medicine.

This is good news, since the findings, published in the Journal of Immunology, suggest that individuals vaccinated against smallpox prior to the end of the smallpox vaccination program in 1972 may still retain at least some protection against smallpox.

Rafi Ahmed, PhD, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and director of the Emory Vaccine Center, was principal investigator of the research study, and Shane Crotty, PhD, formerly at...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2003-12-03)

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