The smallpox vaccine is used to prevent smallpox infection caused by the variola virus. It is the first vaccine to have been developed against a contagious...
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via contaminated objects. Prevention was achieved mainly through the smallpox vaccine. Once the disease had developed, certain antiviral medications could...
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licensed vaccines are currently available for twenty-five different preventable infections. The first recorded use of inoculation to prevent smallpox occurred...
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Vaccination (redirect from Vaccine failure)
likely smallpox, with the first recorded use of variolation occurring in the 16th century in China. It was also the first disease for which a vaccine was...
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Vaccinia (redirect from Vaccinia vaccine)
to the deadly smallpox. Jenner referred to cowpox as variolae vaccinae (smallpox of the cow). However, the origins of the smallpox vaccine became murky...
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Edward Jenner (category Smallpox vaccines)
scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from...
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Modified vaccinia Ankara (redirect from Non-replicating smallpox vaccine)
being used as a vaccine (called MVA-BN, brand names: Imvanex in the EU, Imvamune in Canada, and Jynneos in the US) against smallpox and mpox, having...
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(MMRV) vaccine Polio vaccine Rotavirus vaccine Rubella vaccine Smallpox vaccine Varicella vaccine Yellow fever vaccine Zoster/shingles vaccine Enterotoxigenic...
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ACAM2000 (redirect from Mpox vaccine)
ACAM2000 is a smallpox vaccine and an mpox vaccine manufactured by Emergent Biosolutions. It provides protection against smallpox for people determined...
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Monkeypox virus (section Vaccine)
The genome is approximately 190 kb. Smallpox and monkeypox viruses are both orthopoxviruses, and the smallpox vaccine is effective against mpox if given...
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Variolation (redirect from Smallpox Variolation)
compared to 30% who contracted smallpox naturally. Variolation is no longer used today. It was replaced by the smallpox vaccine, a safer alternative. This...
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eradicated smallpox". An article in The Times suggested this, attributing to an unnamed "adviser to WHO" the quote "I believe the smallpox vaccine theory...
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Cowpox (category Smallpox vaccines)
observation that dairy farmers were immune to smallpox inspired the modern smallpox vaccine, created and administered by English physician Edward Jenner. The first...
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Inoculation (category Smallpox vaccines)
variolation (from the Latin word variola = smallpox), the predecessor to the smallpox vaccine. The smallpox vaccine, introduced by Edward Jenner in 1796, was...
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Mpox (category Vaccine-preventable diseases)
those at high risk of infection. No vaccine has been developed specifically against mpox, but smallpox vaccines have been found to be effective. There...
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Bifurcated needle (category Smallpox vaccines)
freeze-dried smallpox vaccine between its prongs. Up to one hundred vaccinations can be given from one vial of the reconstituted vaccine. The established...
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different paths to introduce the smallpox vaccine in early 19th century United States". Vaccine. 38 (12): 2743. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.01.077. PMID 32057569...
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Paul Offit (section Smallpox vaccine)
member of the CDC's advisory panel to vote against a program to give smallpox vaccine to tens of thousands of Americans. He later argued on 60 Minutes II...
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The history of smallpox extends into pre-history. Genetic evidence suggests that the smallpox virus emerged 3,000 to 4,000 years ago. Prior to that, similar...
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Operation Dark Winter (category Smallpox in the United States)
public-safety assets. Leaders in states most affected by smallpox wanted immediate access to smallpox vaccine for all citizens of their states, but the federal...
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be prevented each year if all recommended vaccines were used. Vaccination campaigns helped eradicate smallpox, which once killed as many as one in seven...
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vaccines, which may replicate in humans, thus potentially causing severe and life-threatening side effects. Developed as the non-replicating smallpox...
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develops and documents first vaccine for smallpox. 1884-1885 – First vaccine for cholera by Jaime Ferran y Clua 1885 – First vaccine for rabies by Louis Pasteur...
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guidance on the use of smallpox vaccine, Cidofovir, and Vaccinia immune globulin. Thirty residents in six states received the smallpox vaccination. This included...
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United States by British anti-vaccine activist William Tebb, and opposed compulsory smallpox vaccination for smallpox from the final decades of the 19th...
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conjunction with New York City health officials, had procured the smallpox vaccine and inoculated over 6,350,000 adults and children. Of that number,...
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Balmis Expedition (category Smallpox)
America and Asia against smallpox. The vaccine was transported through children: orphaned boys who sailed with the expedition. Smallpox, a devastating disease...
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The smallpox virus retention debate has been going on among scientists and health officials since the smallpox virus was declared eradicated by the World...
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Anthrax vaccines are vaccines to prevent the livestock and human disease anthrax, caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. They have had a prominent...
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the smallpox vaccine. Commentators have identified vaccine diplomacy occurring as far back as the first vaccine, Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccine. It...
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