Smallpox Readiness: Modern Strategies Against an Ancient Disease

JAMA. 2024 Sep 17;332(11):873-874. doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.8614.
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Plain language summary

This Viewpoint highlights the potential for unintentional or deliberate release of variola virus (smallpox), discusses current medical countermeasures for smallpox, and calls for greater flexibility from the US and its partners in developing safe, reliable, affordable, and equitable countermeasures.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Biomedical Research / standards
  • Bioterrorism / prevention & control
  • Disaster Planning* / organization & administration
  • Gene Editing
  • Global Health
  • History, 20th Century
  • Humans
  • Mass Vaccination / history
  • Mass Vaccination / organization & administration
  • Smallpox Vaccine / administration & dosage
  • Smallpox Vaccine / history
  • Smallpox* / epidemiology
  • Smallpox* / history
  • Smallpox* / prevention & control
  • Smallpox* / virology
  • Variola virus / genetics
  • Variola virus / pathogenicity

Substances

  • Smallpox Vaccine