Smallpox Vaccination: What Everyone Should Know

About the Disease

• CDC’s main smallpox website
• Description
  Symptoms, treatment, transmission, etc.
• Smallpox Basics
  Overview of the disease & what CDC is doing to protect you…
• Questions and Answers
• Pictures of Smallpox
  Warning: Some of these photos are quite graphic.
• What You Should Know About a Smallpox Outbreak
• Travelers information
  Information and updates on risks for travelers, precautions, prevention, etc.
• Timeline of Smallpox Disease and Vaccine
  Source: History of Vaccines

Vaccine Information

• Vaccine Basics
• Side Effects
• Vaccine Information Statement (VIS)
• Questions and Answers
• Fact Sheet
• Someone You Are Close to May Get the Smallpox Vaccine: What You Should Know and Do
  If someone you have close, physical contact with (your spouse, partner or other member of your household) is considering getting the smallpox vaccine…
• CDC’s Vaccine Safety website
  • concerns | report a suspected vaccine reaction

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Who Should Not be Vaccinated?

• Who should not be vaccinated with Smallpox vaccine?
• Pregnancy and smallpox vaccination

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