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Volume 346:1329 April 25, 2002 Number 17
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Smallpox, October 1945

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To the Editor: Because of terrorism, we may be reviving smallpox vaccination. I had some experience with smallpox while stationed in Nagoya, Japan, in October 1945 with the 229th General Hospital. Joseph B. Kirsner, professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, was chief of gastroenterology at the hospital at that time and confirms the details of my recollections. Over a period of several weeks, we admitted 22 service personnel with smallpox. The initial case was diagnosed at autopsy, but subsequent cases were diagnosed quite early. The disease began with a high fever, with the temperature exceeding 40°C and then . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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