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ID#:

2674

Caption:

This 2002 photograph depicts three of the items contained in the box depicted in PHIL 2671, which included the diluent used to reconstitute the dried smallpox vaccine, a vial of Dryvax^® dried calf lymph type smallpox vaccine, which when reconstituted, would produce 100 vaccine doses, and a bifurcated needle, which during the vaccination process, would introduce a single vaccine dose through the recipient’s skin surface. As of 2007, Dryvax^® had been replaced with ACAM2000^®, manufactured by Acambis, a division of Sanofi Pasteur. Vaccinia vaccine does not contain smallpox (variola) virus, but does contain live, Vaccinia viral particles. See PHIL 2667, for an image showing you a loaded needle, and its dose of vaccinial vaccine ready to be administered to a vaccine recipient.

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Content Provider(s):

CDC

Creation Date:

2002

Photo Credit:

James Gathany

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