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- Title
Mass Smallpox Vaccinations and Cardiac Deaths, New York City, 1947.
- Authors
Thorpe, Lorna E.; Mostashari, Farzad; Karpati, Adam M.; Schwartz, Steven P.; Manning, Susan E.; Marx, Melissa A.; Frieden, Thomas R.
- Abstract
In April 1947, during a smallpox outbreak in New York City (NYC), >6 million people were vaccinated. To determine whether vaccination increased cardiac death, we reviewed NYC death certificates for comparable periods in 1946, 1947, and 1948 (N = 81,529) and calculated adjusted relative death rates for the postvaccination period. No increases in cardiac deaths were observed.
- Subjects
NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State); UNITED States; SMALLPOX vaccines; EPIDEMICS; PREVENTIVE medicine
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004, Vol 10, Issue 5, p917
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid1005.030507