A new study has shown that a smallpox vaccine should also work to train T cells to recognize and fight monkeypox virus.

Immunization against smallpox was always considered successful if a skin lesion formed at the site of vaccination. As researchers are looking to use vaccinia virus, the virus in the smallpox ...

Because the development of new vaccines is directed toward cell-derived formulations, current complication and fatality rates may not apply to new smallpox vaccines.

If you have a permanent scar from the original smallpox vaccine, learn more about its history, why you have it, and if the vaccine still protects you.

LJI scientists confirm smallpox vaccine also teaches T cells to fight mpox Peer-Reviewed Publication La Jolla Institute for Immunology ...

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Last month the World Health Organization's external committee on smallpox recommended that the two scientific teams possessing smallpox virus be allowed to insert a green fluorescent marker gene into ...

For instance, smallpox vaccines were routinely prepared from vaccinia virus that had been propagated in live animals, which in the stringent regulatory environment of the 21st Century would be ...

At the heart of history’s most successful eradication campaign is a mystery. The smallpox vaccine—now also being deployed against monkeypox—contains a live virus that confers immunity ...

Smallpox vaccines have been approved for monkeypox. But experts warn that many questions remain about the protection they provide and how to best administer them.