TY - JOUR AU - Thorpe, Lorna E. AU - Mostashari, Farzad AU - Karpati, Adam M. AU - Schwartz, Steven P. AU - Manning, Susan E. AU - Marx, Melissa A. AU - Frieden, Thomas R. T1 - Mass Smallpox Vaccination and Cardiac Deaths, New York City, 1947 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2004 VL - 10 IS - 5 SP - 917 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In April 1947, during a smallpox outbreak in New York City (NYC), >6,000,000 people were vaccinated. To determine whether vaccination increased cardiac death, we reviewed NYC death certificates for comparable periods in 1946 and 1948 (N = 81,529) and calculated adjusted relative death rates for the postvaccination period. No increases in cardiac deaths were observed. KW - Adverse effects KW - smallpox prevention KW - mass vaccination KW - ischemic heart disease KW - mortality KW - vaccinia KW - New York KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid1005.040119 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/5/04-0119_article ER - End of Reference