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Article: Ocular complications of smallpox and smallpox immunization outlined.
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- Bioterrorism Week
- Article date:
- July 7, 2003
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2003 JUL 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The ocular complications of smallpox and smallpox immunization have been outlined in a recent issue of Archives of Ophthalmology.
"Although smallpox was eradicated worldwide, concerns have been raised about the use of smallpox as a biological weapon. Plans are being considered for smallpox immunization in the United States. Variola virus, the cause of smallpox, and vaccina virus, used in smallpox immunization, are both orthopoxviruses that are associated with serious ocular complications, including eyelid and conjunctival infection, corneal ulceration, disciform keratitis, iritis, optic neuritis, and blindness," a ...