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Last Updated: 26 Aug 09
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Smallpox vaccine prevents smallpox and we will use it carefully.

  Efficacy: The World Health Organization successfully used smallpox vaccine to eradicate natural smallpox from the planet.

  Side Effects: All vaccines cause side effects, but smallpox vaccine has unique features that require special handling.

  Care of the Vaccination Site: Don’t touch the smallpox vaccination site. You may spread virus somewhere else, either on your body or somebody else’s.

  Exemption from Vaccination: Some people should not get smallpox vaccine, except under emergency situations.
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