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If my mom had the smallpox vaccination before she got pregnant, am i immune?
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Don't need to be: Smallpox has been eradicated worldwide so there is no longer any need for vaccination, and no you are not immune.
Answered 10/7/2017
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The vaccination: would not infer immunity to a child that wasn't even conceived. However, it is likely that she still has immunity. A study called “Duration of antiviral immunity after smallpox vaccination.” Hammarlund E. etal (Nat Med 2003) showed that >90 % of volunteers vaccinated 25 to 75 years prior still had significant humoral / cellular immunity. ** http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12925846**
Answered 10/7/2017
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