Written by a French-speaking immunologist and translated into English, the book deals less with the eradication of smallpox than Jenner's contributions to the development of vaccination and the ...

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Dr. Mbawuike has studied the longevity of specific immune responses to the smallpox virus in the general U.S. population. A goal of his work has been to compare the immune responses against vaccinia ...

1. Live attenuated vaccines have saved millions of lives and days of sickness by eliciting long-lasting antibody and T-cell responses 3. Examples include the highly successful smallpox ...

The memory cells will not recognise this year's new strain of flu, and so a different vaccination is needed each year to give immunity. Vaccination wiped out smallpox. In 1967 there were 10 to 15 ...

Today there is mounting concern about the threat of a bioterrorist attack using smallpox—so much concern that in October 2001 the American government decided to order enough vaccine to protect ...

Fill the syringe with the purified cowpox viruses. The smallpox vaccine is a live vaccine; the cowpox viruses it contains will invade cells in your body, multiply, and spread to other cells in ...