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Article: Will millions need booster shots?(smallpox vaccine)
- Article from:
- Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA
- Article date:
- January 19, 2003
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2003 JAN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In a hallway at Strong Memorial Hospital, in Rochester, New York, two volunteers in a medical study showed off the results of booster vaccinations they were given for the smallpox vaccinations they had received as children.
"I've got a nice big round thing that itches like crazy," said James Campbell, 67, pointing at the fresh scar on his left shoulder that matches one he got in 1940.
"Me too!" said Janet Martel, mother of two teenagers. "I probably had no immunity left, which surprises me."
About half of all Americans alive today were inoculated for smallpox as children, and most still carry residual ...