La Jolla Institute unlocks mystery of potentially fatal reaction to smallpox vaccine
Sunday, May 24, 2009 - 23:42
in Health & Medicine
SAN DIEGO ? (May 25, 2009) Researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology have pinpointed the cellular defect that increases the likelihood, among eczema sufferers, of developing eczema vaccinatum, a severe and potentially fatal reaction to the smallpox vaccine.