Data on the number of cases for these diseases from the pre-vaccine era is hard to come by, and even the case counts are ...

This similar virus is cowpox. The cow to the left has been intentionally infected with cowpox virus. The fluid that you collect from virus-caused pustules on the cow's udder contains many copies ...

The same techniques were then used to genetically alter the cowpox virus, which infects a range of animals including humans, by scientists at the University of St Louis. Their research brings ...

Rash distribution may have something to do with the behavior of the infected host. Cowpox virus, which causes a rare skin infection in humans, spreads through direct contact with infected animals ...

However, for the independent species cowpox virus, no human to human transmission has been reported in the literature so far, and we have not observed any cases. In view of the known transmission ...

Over 200 years after the first successful vaccine was created by an English physician, who discovered that inoculation with the cowpox virus protected against smallpox, vaccines remain one of the ...

He found that milkmaids who developed cowpox through working close to the ... All nations were asked to destroy stocks of the virus or hand them to high-security installations in the US or Russia.

Also the difference between the vaccine used by Jenner (cowpox virus) and the twentieth century smallpox vaccines (vaccinia virus, a poxvirus species distinct from cowpox) might have been ...

Armed with the knowledge that milkmaids who had been exposed to cowpox, a relatively mild affliction ... the body against some kind of pathogen—a virus or bacteria or some other agent that ...