Understanding Smallpox Vaccination

Understanding smallpox vaccination.

In a report in this issue of the Journal [1], Gordon and her colleagues at the National Cancer Institute use a rhesus macaque model of smallpox vaccination to examine a question first raised by researchers in the 1950s: what component of the immune response is required for the containment and elimination of the vaccination lesion? By ablating either B cells or CD41 and CD81 T cells at the time ...

Smallpox Vaccination

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

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...

Complications of smallpox vaccination.

IN RECENT years the policy for smiallpox vaccination has again come under review and much of the controversy hinges around the frequency and nature of the more serious complications, especially in relation tothe nervous system. From 1948 Medical Officers of Health of the Local Healith Authoriities in England and Wales were requested to send reports to the Ministry of cases of generalised vaccin...

Vaccination for Smallpox