Did smallpox cause stillbirths? Maternal smallpox infection, vaccination, and stillbirths in Sweden, 1780–1839

Smallpox Vaccination

This article was presented by the author at the Vaccination Seminar of May 26, 1972, National University Medical School.

Smallpox and Vaccination

The actual writer of .the Memorandum is not stated, but, issued as it is under such auspices, it must necessarily be regarded as a weighty and authoritative document. Unfortunately, the subject is such a highly controversial one that it is hardly to be expected?especially in the light of past experience?that anything written on it will be otherwise than ex parte, and certainly the present contr...

Vaccination and Smallpox

terised in this and in other countries by a striking decrease of small-pox mortality. It must be borne in mind that at the time of the introduction of vaccination a large proportion of the population was protected by previous attacks of small-pox, either natural or inoculated, and that the amount of vaccination adequate to afford a great protection in the earlier years of the century ceased to ...

Vaccination against smallpox.

Correspondence Because of heavy pressure on our space, correspondents are asked to keep their letters short. SIR,-During the decade 1951-60 there were 21 deaths in England and Wales due to smallpox. In the same period there were 27 deaths, most of them infants, attributed to post-vaccinal encephalitis as well as a score or so deaths from other fatal complications of smallpox vaccination. As Pro...

Vaccination for Smallpox