Why does the smallpox vaccine pose a threat to some eczema sufferers?
Widespread smallpox vaccination would pose some new concerns, especially for people with eczema, according to study author Lisa Beck, M.D. 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.
