2007-03-27 19:13:05 · 4 answers · asked by bullrunjimbo 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
Yes. You will be immune for the rest of your life against it. One of the ways you develop immunity is to get a disease/bacteria/virus and survive it. You received an innoculation. It's an artificial way to "survive" small-pox. The anti-bodies that were in the serum developed by infecting a horse and filtering out their Lymph (which contains the antibodies) are being happily copied by your own body to this day.
2007-03-27 19:21:40 · answer #1 · answered by jeff_marasso 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How long does a smallpox vaccination last?
Past experience indicates that the first dose of the vaccine offers protection from smallpox for 3 to 5 years, with decreasing immunity thereafter. If a person is vaccinated again later, immunity lasts longer.
2007-03-28 03:37:01 · answer #2 · answered by Just Orb 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The baby boomers on my dept. only had to get a booster, not the whole vaccine.
2007-03-28 02:23:33 · answer #3 · answered by crystalshannon516 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
maybe..but...a booster would be a definite
2007-03-28 02:17:17 · answer #4 · answered by debbie2243 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋