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Influence of Population Immunosuppression and Past Vaccination on Smallpox Reemergence

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018
We built a SEIR (susceptible, exposed, infected, recovered) model of smallpox transmission for New York, New York, USA, and Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, that accounted for age-specific population immunosuppression and residual vaccine immunity and
C. Raina MacIntyre, Valentina Costantino, Xin Chen, Eva Segelov, Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, Anthony Kelleher, Mohana Kunasekaran, John Michael Lane   +7 more
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Risks and Benefits of Preexposure and Postexposure Smallpox Vaccination

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2003
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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The Pasteurian contribution to the history of vaccines

Comptes Rendus Biologies, 2022
Vaccination, the transmission of “vaccine”, a benign disease of cows, to immunize human beings against smallpox, was invented by Jenner at the end of the eighteenth century.
Schwartz, Maxime
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Repositioning potentials of smallpox vaccines and antiviral agents in monkeypox outbreak: A rapid review on comparative benefits and risks

Health Science Reports, 2022
Background and aims There is a sought for vaccines and antiviral agents as countermeasures for the recent monkeypox outbreak. Here, we aimed to review and discuss the repurposing potentials of smallpox vaccines and drugs in monkeypox outbreaks based on ...
Md. Rabiul Islam, Md. Jamal Hossain, Arpita Roy, A. H. M. Nazmul Hasan, Md. Ashrafur Rahman, Mohammad Shahriar, Mohiuddin Ahmed Bhuiyan   +6 more
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A vaccinia virus renaissanceNew vaccine and immunotherapeutic uses after smallpox eradication

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2012
In 1796, Edward Jenner introduced the concept of vaccination with cowpox virus, an Orthopoxvirus within the family Poxviridae that elicits cross protective immunity against related orthopoxviruses, including smallpox virus (variola virus).
Paulo H. Verardi, Allison Titong, Caitlin J. Hagen   +2 more
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Evolution of means and principles of smallpox vaccination

Вестник войск РХБ защиты, 2020
There are several possible reasons for the return of smallpox as an endemic disease. For example, the possibility of maintaining smallpox virus in an active state in the corpses of the dead, buried in permafrost regions, or the evolutionary changes of ...
S. V. Borisevich, V. N. Podkuyko, A. P. Pirozhkov, A. I. Terent'ev, V. P. Krasnyansky, E. V. Rozhdestvensky, S. V. Nazarov, S. V. Kuznecov   +7 more
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The Global Monkeypox (Mpox) Outbreak: A Comprehensive Review

Vaccines, 2023
Monkeypox (Mpox) is a contagious illness that is caused by the monkeypox virus, which is part of the same family of viruses as variola, vaccinia, and cowpox.
Shriyansh Srivastava, Sachin Kumar, Shagun Jain, Aroop Mohanty, Neeraj Thapa, Prabhat Poudel, Krishna Bhusal, Zahraa Haleem Al-qaim, Joshuan J. Barboza, Bijaya Kumar Padhi, Ranjit Sah   +10 more
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Monkeypox virus-infected individuals mount comparable humoral immune responses as Smallpox-vaccinated individuals

Nature Communications, 2023
In early 2022, a cluster of monkeypox virus (MPXV) infection (mpox) cases were identified within the UK with no prior travel history to MPXV-endemic regions.
Ashley D. Otter, Scott Jones, Bethany Hicks, Daniel Bailey, Helen Callaby, Catherine Houlihan, Tommy Rampling, Nicola Claire Gordon, Hannah Selman, Panayampalli S. Satheshkumar, Michael Townsend, Ravi Mehta, Marcus Pond, Rachael Jones, Deborah Wright, Clarissa Oeser, Simon Tonge, Ezra Linley, Georgia Hemingway, Tom Coleman, Sebastian Millward, Aaron Lloyd, Inger Damon, Tim Brooks, Richard Vipond, Cathy Rowe, Bassam Hallis   +26 more
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Safety and immunogenicity of IMVAMUNE®, a third-generation vaccine based on the modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) strain

Биопрепараты: Профилактика, диагностика, лечение, 2023
In 1980, the World Health Assembly officially declared smallpox eradicated in the world, which allowed developed countries to stop preventive vaccination against this disease.
L. F. Stovba, O. V. Chukhralya, N. K. Chernikova, A. L. Khmelev, S. V. Borisevich   +4 more
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Third-generation smallpox vaccines induce low-level cross-protecting neutralizing antibodies against Monkeypox virus in laboratory workers

Heliyon
Due to the discontinuation of routine smallpox vaccination after its eradication in 1980, a large part of the human population remains naïve against smallpox and other members of the orthopoxvirus genus.
Damian Jandrasits, Roland Züst, Denise Siegrist, Olivier B. Engler, Benjamin Weber, Kristina M. Schmidt, Hulda R. Jonsdottir   +6 more
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