[Update on smallpox vaccines].
Smallpox is among the most dangerous pathogens that could be used by bioterrorists. The former vaccines produced by scarification on the flanks of calves or sheep could be used to protect the whole French population when used with bifurcated needles. They should be replaced by a second-generation vaccine grown in cell culture and, eventually later by new and safer third-generation vaccines using non-replicative viral strains.
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Laboratoire de virologie, CRSSA Emile-Pardé, BP 87, 38702 Grenoble cedex, France. daniel.garin@wanadoo.fr
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Fuchs
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Drillien
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