Smallpox Vaccine 1955
The smallpox vaccine helps the body develop immunity to smallpox. The vaccine is made from a virus called vaccinia which is a pox-type virus related to smallpox. The smallpox vaccine contains the live vaccinia virus—not dead virus like many other vaccines. For that reason, the vaccination site must be cared for carefully to prevent the virus from spreading. Also, the vaccine can have side effects. In the past, about 1000 people for every 1 million people vaccinated for the first time experienced reactions that, while not life-threatening, were serious. These reactions included a toxic or allergic reaction at the site of the vaccination (erythema multiforme), spread of the vaccinia virus to other parts of the body and to other individuals (inadvertent inoculation), and spread of the vaccinia virus to other parts of the body through the blood (generalized vaccinia). These types of reactions may require medical attention. In the past, between 14 and 52 people out of every 1 million people vaccinated for the first time experienced potentially life-threatening reactions to the vaccine. Based on past experience, it is estimated that 1 or 2 people in 1 million who receive the vaccine may die as a result. Routine smallpox vaccinations were discontinued among US children in 1972, and among US healthcare workers in 1976 after the disease was eradicated in the United States and because of the side effects. Until recently, the US government provided the vaccine only to a few hundred …
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June 2nd, 2011 at 7:42 pm
samples of the smallpox virus still exist and are kept as potential biological warfare agents. Apart from this it has been eradicated.
June 2nd, 2011 at 8:32 pm
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June 2nd, 2011 at 9:38 pm
@chase1297 Small Pox has only been kept at hand, Small Pox has never been fully “gotten rid of”
June 2nd, 2011 at 9:38 pm
@spazzymagey ummmm we got rid of smallpox in the 70s.
June 2nd, 2011 at 9:56 pm
@algood u are the dumbeeeest commenter ive in a while.
u might even get dumbest comment of the week?
June 2nd, 2011 at 10:01 pm
@06greek06 but would it be safe to have one every 5 years or so?
June 2nd, 2011 at 10:58 pm
@klett69 The smallpox vaccination lasts like 5 years. After this time period it just wares off.
June 2nd, 2011 at 11:44 pm
“the child is safe from smallpox for several years…”
But not forever ! What would happen later then??
Cancer?
June 3rd, 2011 at 2:00 am
@dischordia23 its all propaganda that vaccines cured smallpox, the thing that stopped it from spreading was hygene.
compare the hygene of then to now, clean water, clean food, personall hygene. That is what stopped smallpox from spreading, not the vaccine. Its all propaganda.
Do you seriously not notice a difference in hygene from people 300 years ago?. People used to throw their own poo into the streets, sewers lead to the thames, polluted water. Do u seriously reckon a vaccine stopped the It??
June 3rd, 2011 at 3:15 am
I was born in 1957, and have wondered why I was vaccinated agaisnt Smallpox, since I don’t have the Smallpox scar. Now I wonder if I received this form.
Fascinating!
Jeff