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Live Smallpox Vaccine
The live vaccine is actually a second generation smallpox vaccine and these live vaccines have been associated with more severe and significant adverse effects. So far as you're administering it to individuals who are immunocompetent, that's an absolute contraindication. The virus in the vaccine is vaccine. And the virus that causes smallpox is variola.