Sentences with phrase «vaccinated against smallpox»

Fatal heart attacks that recently struck two people after they were vaccinated against smallpox were probably unfortunate coincidences, not adverse consequences of vaccination, say epidemiologists who base their conclusion on death records from the 1940s.

Zelicoff suggests that the strain was unusually infectious, because three of the 25 people who were vaccinated against smallpox and were close to a vaccinated patient got sick themselves — an unusually high percentage.

The man had injured the skin of his hands changing car tyres in cold weather and «should have been wearing plastic gloves,» says Heidelore Hoffman, the dermatologist who reported the case, «but he thought he was protected because he had been vaccinated against smallpox as a child.»

Cells from 10 people never vaccinated against smallpox were also exposed.