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A 28-year-old previously healthy man developed myopericarditis following smallpox vaccination [dosage not stated].
Two weeks postvaccination, the man presented with chest pain of 4 days' duration. Over this period he had also experienced progressive malaise, myalgias, fevers and shaking chills. His chest pain was nonexertional, positional and pleuritic. He reported the appearance of a nonpruritic rash on his head a few days postvaccination and that the injection...