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A U.S. toddler who nearly died from a rare skin reaction to his father's smallpox shot is out of intensive care and on the mend, thanks to a novel combination of drugs that had never been tried in children.

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April 14, 2007, 12:10 p.m.
"He's making what we hope is a complete recovery," said Dr. John Marcinak, the University of Chicago pediatric infectious disease specialist who has helped treat the child since early March.
The 2-year-old Indiana boy, who has been upgraded to fair condition at the University of Chicago's Comer Children's Hospital, developed the rare rash known as eczema vaccinatum after being with his father, a soldier vaccinated for deployment in Iraq .

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