Risks and Benefits of Preexposure and Postexposure Smallpox Vaccination
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). Even at a 1-in-10 risk of 1,000 initial smallpox cases, a per...
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| Language: | English |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2003-11-01
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| Series: | Emerging Infectious Diseases |
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| Online Access: | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/9/11/03-0369_article |