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Engineering safe and effective vaccinia virus vectors for next-generation vaccines
Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Vaccinia virus (VACV) confers cross-protective immunity against the variola virus, the causative agent of smallpox, and has therefore been ...
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Potential single-dose smallpox and mpox vaccine moves forward
"We would like to be in the middle." Smallpox, which is caused by the variola virus, was a highly contagious disease with a fatality rate between 30% and 97%. Historical records suggest it began ...