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Essentially, in all documented cases, vaccination for orthopoxvirus with the vaccines currently or historically available has been completely neutalizing/sterilizing. This virus changes very little, although there's some interesting evidence of base substitutions due to interaction with the human immune system. The implications of this remain to be discerned.

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Are environmental stability (bad) and long term sterilizing immunity (good) two sides of the same coin?

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