Vaccinia Outbreak — Newfoundland

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• Language: English
• Subjects: Cornwallis; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.691.6231; http://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/1276/cdc_1276_DS1.pdf

Newfoundland. They resulted from exposure to a recently vaccinated female member °f the Canadian Forces on leave over the Christmas-New Year season. The Preventive Medicine Directorate, Surgeon General's Office, Department of Na tional Defence, reported that the vaccinee was an 18-year-old female recruit at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, who had had a good "p rim ary " reaction following smallpox vaccination on December 12, 1980. While on leave in Newfoundland, she was seen by a physician on December 22 because of discomfort in her arm and a vaccinial lesion on her lower lip. Within 24 hours, further satellite lesions had developed— 6 on the abdomen and 2 on the left thigh. By January 14, 1981, after she had returned to her base, scab lesions were present on her face, but the peripheral lesions had healed. Discomfort persisted at the vacci nation site. Secondary transmission of infection was first recognized in a 15-year-old female who had shared a bed with the vaccinee on the night of December 29. She sought medical attention on January 8 for a "p im p le " on her chin that had appeared 3 days earlier.