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A woman in her 20s from Washington State was infected with the vaccinia virus used in smallpox vaccines earlier this year after sexual contact with her boyfriend, a member of the military who had been vaccinated five days earlier, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
The man had removed a bandage covering his vaccination site earlier that day, the report said.
It is one of five known cases in the past 12 months of women from four states who got vaccinia through sexual contact with a member of the military, the July 2 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report said.
The man had removed a bandage covering his vaccination site earlier that day, the report said.
It is one of five known cases in the past 12 months of women from four states who got vaccinia through sexual contact with a member of the military, the July 2 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report said.
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