Scientific and Policy Considerations in Developing Smallpox Vaccination Options: A Workshop Report

by National Research Council, Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

At the World Health Assembly in May 1980, the World Health Organization declared the world free of smallpox. Smallpox vaccination of civilians is now indicated only for laboratory workers directly involved with smallpox or closely related orthopox viruses. However recent questions raised by the terrorist attacks in fall 2001 have renewed concerns about possible outbreaks of smallpox resulting from its use as a biological weapon. In June 2002, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309086043
• ISBN13: 9780309086042
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 57 Pages