Smallpox Immunization Resources for Healthcare Providers

Clinical Resources

Materials for Providers

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Ask the Experts

I was recently told by a colleague that pregnant healthcare personnel were not to administer live vaccines to others. I had never heard that in school or practice. Is that true?

Where can I find a comprehensive listing of contraindications and precautions to vaccination?

I am a pharmacist who administers vaccines. I was recently told by a colleague that pregnant healthcare personnel were not to administer live vaccines to others. I had never heard that in school or practice. Is that true?

Do we need to wait for the vaccine to reach room temperature before we administer it to a patient?

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ACIP Recommendations

Current Recommendations

Use of Jynneos (smallpox and monkeypox vaccine, live, nonreplicating) for preexposure vaccination of persons at risk for occupational exposure to orthopoxviruses: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices — US, 2022

MMWR, May 27, 2022, Vol 71

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Use of Vaccinia Virus Smallpox Vaccine in Laboratory and Health Care Personnel at Risk for Occupational Exposure to Orthopoxviruses—Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), 2015

MMWR, March 18, 2016, Vol. 65(10):257-262

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Recommendations for Using Smallpox Vaccine in a Pre-Event Vaccination Program

MMWR, Recommendations and Reports, April 4, 2003, Vol. 52(RR-7)

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Vaccinia (Smallpox) Vaccine

MMWR June 22, 2001 / Vol. 50 / No. RR-10

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