Some Eczema Sufferers More Prone to Smallpox and Other Viruses
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 13:35
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the World Health Organization proclaimed smallpox officially eradicated in late 1979 - thanks to vaccination programs that produced a protective `herd immunity` for most of the globe - fear of the fever-causing, blistering, sometimes fatal infectious disease has faded. In fact, in the more than three decades that the disease has been wiped out, routine smallpox vaccination has virtually stopped for most of the population.