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Nature 420, 110 (14 November 2002) | doi:10.1038/420110b

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Outcry greets US plan to test smallpox vaccine on children

Erika Check

Plans to test a smallpox vaccine on small children in the United States have been slammed by critics who claim that the trial is unnecessary and potentially harmful.The government wants to give 40 children, aged 2–5, doses of the Dryvax smallpox vaccine.