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Guest Editorial: A Family Doc Looks at Smallpox

[Medscape Infectious Diseases 4(2), 2002. © 2002 Medscape]


Table 1. Adverse Effects of Vaccinia in the 1960s


Adverse Effect

Frequency (per million)

Postvaccination encephalopathy

1.9 to 12.3

Vaccinia necrosum

0.9 to 1.5

Eczema vaccinatum

8.7 to 38.5

Generalized vaccinia

20.8 to 241.5

Accidental autoinnoculation (74% involving eyes)

13.6 to 529.2

Deaths

0.8 to 1.1

Total adverse effects

52.9 to 823