The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 272 No 7290 p312
13 March 2004

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Smallpox vaccine

A new smallpox vaccine shows promise in animal studies. Monkeys treated with the modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) were immune to monkeypox (similar to smallpox in humans). Trials indicate that MVA could be used as pre-treatment, with smallpox vaccine added in the event of a specific threat of an outbreak of the disease (Nature 2004;428:182).