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Smallpox Vaccines
New smallpox vaccines study results reported from L.E. Chapman et al
April 30th, 2008
According to recent research from the United States, "The US Department of Defense requested that the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices-Armed Forces Epidemiological Board joint Smallpox Vaccine Safety Working Group define the likelihood that smallpox vaccination played a causal role in the fatal illness of an Army reservist. Reported serious adverse events for which there was no a priori reason to discount the existence of a causal association with smallpox vaccine were reviewed to assess whether they were signals of constellations of vaccine-associated adverse events." "A causal relationship between the immunization experience and the index patient's death...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-04-30)
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