Smallpox tests could show soldier as link
LAWTON — A child who came into a Lawton emergency room with a strange rash likely contracted a strain of smallpox from a recently vaccinated Fort Sill soldier.
Test results are pending with the State Department of Health, but officials say the patient probably contracted the vaccinia virus, a milder form of smallpox used in vaccinations, from a Fort Sill soldier who had recently been inoculated for the dis...
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