Vaccinia

Vaccinia
Generalized vaccinia: Progressive vaccinia/vaccinia necrosum, Eczema vaccinatum (Kaposi's varicelliform), Fetal vaccinia,

In immune compromised patients, mortality rates from dermal complications (eg, eczema vaccinatum, vaccinia necrosum) were reported as 10% and nearly 100%, respectively. When patients are treated with vaccinia immune globulin (VIG), the mortality rate is reduced drastically. After 1969, when VIG became available, investigations suggest mortality rates of 1% for eczema vaccinatum and 33% for vaccinia necrosum.........The disease, eczema vaccinatum, has a 30% mortality rate, largely in infants. Treatment with VIG has some limited benefit. http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2356.htm

During the last decade the deaths from vaccinia have several times outnumbered those from smallpox, whilst if we have regard to the amount of ill health caused by the two diseases (and putting aside for the moment the question of the alleged effect of vaccination in lessening smallpox) it looks as if vaccinia were becoming, so far as the community is concerned, the more serious disease of the two." [1920 USA] HORRORS OF VACCINATION EXPOSED AND ILLUSTRATED BY CHAS. M. HIGGINS

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