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| | Smallpox Vaccines: Questions and Answers |
 | | The vaccine is administered to the superficial layers of the skin using a bifurcated, or double-pointed, needle. | | | Clinical responses to undiluted and diluted smallpox vaccine. | | | NIH is supporting the study of new generation smallpox vaccines that are made using even more attenuated, or weakened, forms of the smallpox vaccine virus. |
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http://www.fda.gov/cber/vaccine/smallpox.htm
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| | Understanding the Smallpox Vaccine |
| | The smallpox vaccine is not given with a hypodermic needle. | | | The vaccine is given using a bifurcated (two-pronged) needle that is dipped into the vaccine solution. | | | A screening tool is being developed which may include these drugs as contraindications to vaccination while patients are on therapy. |
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http://www.dermwestconn.com/new/understand_smallpox.html
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| | Smallpox Vaccine Research at the Medical College of Wisconsin |
| | Smallpox Vaccine Research at the Medical College of Wisconsin | | | Because most physicians have never seen smallpox, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been providing educational materials and seminars to healthcare providers to help them recognize and treat smallpox outbreaks. | | | MCW Health News presents up-to-date information on patient care and medical research by the physicians of the Medical College of Wisconsin. |
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| | NGC - NGC Summary |
| | The multiple-puncture technique uses a presterilized bifurcated needle that is inserted vertically into the vaccine vial, causing a droplet of vaccine to adhere between the prongs of the needle. | | | Vaccinia vaccine should not be used therapeutically for any reason. | | | The skin over the insertion of the deltoid muscle or the posterior aspect of the arm over the triceps muscle are the preferred sites for smallpox vaccination. |
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| | Smallpox vaccine risks |
| | Eczema vaccinatum is a localized or systemic dissemination of vaccinia virus among persons who have eczema or a history of eczema or other chronic or exfoliative skin conditions (e.g., atopic dermatitis) (Figure 5). | | | Before administering vaccinia vaccine, the physician should complete a thorough patient history to document the absence of vaccination contraindications among both vaccinees and their household contacts. | | | Persons with other acute, chronic, or exfoliative skin conditions (e.g., atopic dermatitis, burns, impetigo, or varicella zoster) might also be at higher risk for eczema vaccinatum and should not be vaccinated until the condition resolves. |
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http://www.vaccinationnews.com/Scandals/feb_8_02/SmallVaxRisks.htm
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| | If the vaccine virus is put on an area where the skin is broken or on a mucous membrane such as the mouth, eye, vagina, or rectum, then sores develop that are similar to the sore at the vaccination site. | | | If your job requires direct physical contact with people, such as people who do massage therapy, then you might consider asking clients who have been vaccinated not to come for therapy during the time when they have an open sore from the vaccine. | | | If you have an autoimmune disease that might require the use of steroids or other therapy that could affect the immune system, no one in your family who lives in the same household should receive smallpox vaccine because you might acquire the smallpox vaccine virus from your family member. |
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http://www.itppeople.com/smallpox.htm
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| | Smallpox Vaccine Information |
| | It is applied by scratching the skin of the lateral or posterior shoulder area and introducing a drop of vaccine. | | | Health-care workers involved in direct patient care should keep their vaccination sites covered with gauze or a similar absorbent material in order to absorb exudates that will develop. | | | Skin conditions - Persons with burns, chickenpox, shingles, impetigo, herpes, severe acne, or psoriasis should not be vaccinated until they are completely healed. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Hospitals balk at smallpox vaccine |
| | The vaccinia virus used in the vaccine can also threaten the elderly, infants or anyone else with weakened immunity who comes into contact with those who are vaccinated. | | | As the doctors drew up their plan, they received word that there was no smallpox patient after all. | | | To treat the patient, they identified a doctor and a nurse who had been vaccinated as children. |
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| | Smallpox |
| | After purification, it was freeze-dried in rubber-stoppered vials that contain sufficient vaccine for at least 50 doses when a bifurcated needle is used. | | | No antiviral substances have yet proved effective for the treatment of smallpox, and the working group is not aware of any reports that suggest any antiviral product is therapeutic. | | | Encouraging initial reports in the 1960s describing the therapeutic benefits of the thiosemicarbazones, cytosine arabinoside, and adenine arabinoside proved questionable on further study. |
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| | Smallpox vaccine failure quotes |
| | The mere assertions of patients or their friends that they were vaccinated counted for nothing." Another medical official justifies this method of making statistics as follows: "I have always classed those as ‘unvaccinated,’ when no scar, presumably arising from vaccination, could be discovered. | | | Yet the medical journals have continued to denounce Leicester for taking up an attitude against vaccination, which not only entirely accords with reason and common sense, but is justified to the full by its own unimpeachable experience. | | | But that objection is met by looking into the returns for Berlin and other cities where the vaccinal condition of the patients is given. |
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| | eMedicine - CBRNE - Smallpox : Article by Christopher J Hogan, MD |
| | The modified variety of smallpox essentially develops in people with some intact immune response who were previously vaccinated. | | | New research demonstrates that chemical inhibitors of host-signaling pathways exploited by viral pathogens may represent potent antiviral therapies. | | | Prior to eradication, the malignant, or flat form, of variola affected 6% of the population and evolved more slowly than the classic presentation. |
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| | Vaccination Information & Choice Network - Vaccine/Vaccination/Immunization Dangers |
| | He proved that internal vaccination was safe, an effective, and that our city physician was not as well informed on smallpox as he should have been. | | | Though it seemed mandatory that the vaccination be external, I fortified myself with legal information and began giving internal vaccination. | | | The city health physician and local doctors recommended immediate vaccination, in the arm, of all school children. |
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| | Illinois Vaccine Awareness Coalition - Smallpox Vaccine Insert |
| | Illinois Vaccine Awareness Coalition - Smallpox Vaccine Insert | | | In the 2-part process, if needle touches skin after dropping vaccine on injection site, do not re-dip needle into vaccine; | | | only 2 or 3 needle punctures recommended for primary vaccination; 15 for revaccination; |
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| | Smallpox Vaccine: What You Should Know -- familydoctor.org |
| | Those who have other severe but nonchronic skin conditions, such as chickenpox or cystic acne. | | | Those who have a history of eczema or other chronic skin conditions like atopic dermatitis. | | | A Smallpox Response Team is a group of medical professionals who have received the smallpox vaccine. |
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| | A-1 database on vaccines and news about vaccines |
| | The Vaccine Page does not control the content of those news items, or of any commercial offerings you may encounter on those pages. | | | Primarily oriented toward the health care practitioner, this multilingual site (English, Spanish, and Chinese) provides news and educational information about vaccine-preventable diseases, immunization, and vaccines (GSK vaccines in particular). | | | The training resources and vaccine awareness services are designed to support the day-to-day needs of health care professionals who manage local immunization services. |
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| | USNews.com: Health: In Brief: Infectious Diseases: Smallpox vaccine (12/2/04) |
| | The above health brief provides basic, but partial, information about a medical study. | | | Antibiotic resistance: Drugging healthy animals adds to the problem | | | "Vaccination Success Rate and Reaction Profile With Diluted and Undiluted Smallpox Vaccine." Journal of the American Medical Association. |
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| | Smallpox |
| | Better sanitation and improved economic conditions had little influence on the incidence of the disease. | | | Smallpox could occur and spread in any country, and case fatality rates were little altered by therapy. | | | Smallpox, the most universally feared of all diseases during recent centuries, is now a vaccine preventable disease of historical interest only, its global eradication having been certified in 1980. |
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| | Smallpox (Vaccinia) Vaccine Injury Table |
| | Survivor of a smallpox vaccine recipient or a vaccinia contact who died as a direct result of a medical injury covered by this Program, or | | | prior to contracting vaccinia, was accidentally inoculated by a smallpox vaccine recipient or a contact of such a person. | | | Individuals who have injuries not in the Table injuries also may be considered eligible for benefits if their injuries can be shown to be the direct result of the smallpox vaccine, other covered countermeasures or vaccinia. |
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| | CIDRAP >> Smallpox |
| | Multiple diagnostic techniques identify previously vaccinated individuals with protective immunity against monkeypox | | | Pilot study to probe cardiac effects of smallpox vaccine | | | Hospital decision-making regarding the smallpox pre-event vaccination program |
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| | BBC NEWS Health Alternative vaccine for smallpox |
| | They found that mice which were given Dryvax developed severe side-effects such as extreme weight loss and skin sores. | | | The researchers also believe that MVA could provide an alternative for people who are unable to take Dryvax for medical reasons. | | | To test this theory, they carried out a second study to examine the effect of the vaccine on immunocompromised mice. |
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| | Smallpox vaccine |
| | Protection may last longer when revaccination is performed. | | | Smallpox as a biological weapon: medical and public health management. | | | The consequences of inadvertent inoculation at other sites, and skin and central nervous system disorders, were the most frequently recognized adverse events. |
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| | BBC News HEALTH Smallpox vaccine 'could kill hundreds' |
| | People with eczema, or who are immunosuppressed, are those most likely not to be given the vaccine. | | | A small proportion of patients would suffer severe, even life-threatening, reactions to the vaccine. | | | The risk posed by smallpox vaccination is greater than the risk from other recommended vaccines, such as the MMR vaccine |
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| | By 1977, vaccination programs, such as those by the World Health Organization (WHO), had eliminated the disease worldwide. | | | There is no specific treatment for smallpox; an antibiotic may be administered to prevent secondary bacterial infection. | | | smallpox, acute, highly contagious disease causing a high fever and successive stages of severe skin eruptions. |
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| | Physicians tended to immunize children early in life during smallpox epidemics and this can explain the low incidence of IDDM in children born in the Netherlands during a European smallpox epidemic of 1962 when immunization was agressive. | | | The graph below suggests that immunization starting at birth with the smallpox vaccine may cause a reduction in diabetes risk. |
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| | Hardin MD : Smallpox & Smallpox Vaccine (Small Pox) |
| | Hardin MD : Smallpox & Smallpox Vaccine (Small Pox) | | | Comparing the stages of rash between smallpox and chickenpox | | | : Infectious diseases : Smallpox (Other versions: Google) |
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| | smallpox vaccine eczema |
| | It - one of the best resources directly concerning smallpox vaccine eczema. |
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