Smallpox Vaccination

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

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...

Encephalitis complicating smallpox vaccination.

A smallpox vaccination program has been initiated. The vaccine is a live virus that was used in the last century. Postvaccinal encephalitis is a complication of this vaccine. The clinical presentation, course, neuroimaging findings, and spinal fluid abnormalities are similar to a disorder that physicians are familiar with, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. This complication can be prevented...

Vaccination for Smallpox

, ? The person was vaccinated for the first time en about eight months old without any success; 5;tS reVaccinated a month later without any reaction, ce then within the last twenty years she must have been revaccinated at least ten times, results were always unsuccessful. The question of unreliability of vaccine lymph used does not arise as some cases vaccinated in the same batch were successfu...