Immunity from smallpox vaccination is widely assumed to decline rapidly, and those vaccinated 30 or more years ago are now unprotected. But a handful of researchers who have examined the scientific literature, including century-old studies as well as state-of-the-art explorations of immunologic memory, believe protection may be far more durable.
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Jon Cohen (2001) studied this question.