Volume 11, Number 7, July 2005

Adventitious Agents and Smallpox Vaccine in Strategic National Stockpile

Frederick A. Murphy* and Bennie I. Osburn*
*University of California, Davis, California, USA

Figure. Freeze-dried (smallpox) vaccine being prepared from virus grown on the skin of a calf. The calf is lying on a grate on a table and is bound to the table. Two men in white coverups, 1 of whom has a surgical mask on his face, are performing a procedure on the calf (scarification and introduction of vaccinia virus into the scarified areas). From the record of the US National Library of Medicine; old negative no. 83-168. WHO/11683 SEARO, Smallpox, Bangladesh, SM 5-1 980. Photograph attributed to J. Mohr, 1980?

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