Smallpox : Prevention

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Many people were vaccinated for smallpox in the past - but the vaccination is no longer given because the virus has been eradicated. According to the CDC, the United States has supply of the smallpox vaccine sufficient for the entire population at...
Source:ADAM
Date:June 20, 2007
From about the tenth century in China, India, and the Americas, it was noted that individuals who had had even a mild case of smallpox could not be infected again. Fascinating accounts appear in writings from all over the world of ways in which pe...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
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