The Risks and Benefits of Pre-event Smallpox Vaccination: Where You Stand Depends on Where You Sit

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 681-684

  Aragón, Tomás J ^a,b,c   Fernyak, Susan E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALLPOX VACCINE;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARMY; DRUG SAFETY; EDITORIAL; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEART DILATATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LEGAL LIABILITY; MYOPERICARDITIS; POSTVACCINAL ENCEPHALITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVACCINATION; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SMALLPOX; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; VACCINATION REACTION; VACCINIA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0142166176     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(03)00811-4     Document Type: Editorial

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