Unintended smallpox vaccination of HIV-1-infected individuals in the United States military.

We identified 10 individuals who had undiagnosed human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection at the time of smallpox vaccination. Mean CD4 cell count was 483 cells/mm3 (range, 286-751 cells/mm3), and mean log10 plasma HIV-1 RNA load was 4.13 copies/cm3 (range, 2.