Evaluation of Smallpox Vaccination Coverage and Attitude towards Monkeypox Vaccination among Healthcare Workers in an Italian University Hospital [PDF]
(1) Background: In 2022, monkeypox (Mpox) was declared a public health emergency. The European Medicines Agency has authorized the use of Imvanex/Jynneos, a smallpox vaccine, for coverage against pox.
Sergio Scarinci +8 more
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Development of Smallpox Antibody Testing and Surveillance Following Smallpox Vaccination in the Republic of Korea [PDF]
Background: Despite its global eradication in 1977, smallpox remains a concern owing to its potential as a biological agent, thereby prompting the ongoing development and utilization of its vaccine.
Hwachul Shin +4 more
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Neurologic Complications of Smallpox Vaccination
Smallpox and smallpox vaccination is reviewed from the Departments of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, and University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque.
J Gordon Millichap
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Following in the footsteps of smallpox: can we achieve the global eradication of measles? [PDF]
Background Although an effective measles vaccine has been available for almost 40 years, in 2000 there were about 30 million measles infections worldwide and 777,000 measles-related deaths.
Morgan Oliver WC
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Phase-out of smallpox vaccination and the female/male HIV-1 prevalence ratio: an ecological study from Guinea-Bissau [PDF]
Objective In Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, we observed that having a smallpox vaccination scar was associated with lower HIV-1 prevalence, more strongly for women than men.
Marie Villumsen +8 more
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Risks and Benefits of Preexposure and Postexposure Smallpox Vaccination
This article presents a model and decision criteria for evaluating a person’s risk of pre- or postexposure smallpox vaccination in light of serious vaccine-related adverse events (death, postvaccine encephalitis and progressive vaccinia).
Martin I. Meltzer
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Past and Present Vaccinations in Sweden [PDF]
Acta Paediatrica, Volume 115, Issue 11, Page 2505-2510, November 2026.
Sven Arne Silfverdal
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Did smallpox cause stillbirths? Maternal smallpox infection, vaccination and stillbirths in Sweden, 1780-1839 [PDF]
Woods (2009) argued that smallpox was an important cause of stillbirths in the past. While there is strong evidence that maternal smallpox infection could lead to fetal loss, it is not clear whether smallpox infections were a demographically important ...
Edvinsson, Sören +2 more
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Contingency planning for a deliberate release of smallpox in Great Britain : the role of geographical scale and contact structure [PDF]
Background: In the event of a release of a pathogen such as smallpox, which is human-to-human transmissible and has high associated mortality, a key question is how best to deploy containment and control strategies.
Hall, Ian +11 more
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