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    Cowpox is an infectious disease caused by the cowpox virus (CPXV). It presents with large blisters in the skin, a fever and swollen glands, historically...
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    an infection with the relatively mild cowpox virus conferred immunity against the deadly smallpox virus. Cowpox served as a natural vaccine until the...
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    vaccinae ('pustules of the cow'), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox. He used it in 1798 in the title of his Inquiry into the Variolae vaccinae...
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  • species in this genus. Diseases associated with this genus include smallpox, cowpox, horsepox, camelpox, and mpox. The most widely known member of the genus...
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  • the connection between cowpox and smallpox. He began investigating dairy farms in the Gloucestershire area looking for cowpox. This research was slow...
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    infection with the relatively mild cowpox virus would also confer immunity to the deadly smallpox. Jenner referred to cowpox as variolae vaccinae (smallpox...
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    could be produced by inoculating a person with material from a cowpox lesion. Cowpox is a poxvirus in the same family as variola. Jenner called the material...
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    developed the concept of vaccines and created the first vaccine) to denote cowpox. He used the phrase in 1798 for the long title of his Inquiry into the Variolae...
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    experimental cowpox vaccine by Edward Jenner. Jenner knew of a local belief that dairy workers who had contracted a relatively mild infection called cowpox were...
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  • pharmaceutical solutions for the antiviral treatment of smallpox, monkeypox, cowpox, and vaccinia complications. In September 2009, SIGA Technologies received...
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    milkman in the sense of cowman or dairyman. As a result of exposure to cowpox, which conveys a partial immunity to the disfiguring (and often fatal) disease...
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  • Central retinal degeneration Chronic kidney disease § Other animals Coccidia Cowpox Cryptosporidiosis Cuterebriasis Diabetes in cats Diaphragmatic hernia Dirofilaria...
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  • called cowpox inoculation or vaccine inoculation (from Latin vacca = cow). Smallpox inoculation continued to be called variolation, whereas cowpox inoculation...
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  • 1800 soon after Edward Jenner introduced smallpox vaccine derived from cowpox, an animal disease distinct from smallpox. The term variolation was then...
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    leukemia Coeliac disease Coronary artery disease Coronavirus disease 2019 Cowpox Diabetic retinopathy Essential fructosuria Flu or Influenza strains Folliculosebaceous...
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    An 1802 cartoon of Edward Jenner's cowpox-derived smallpox vaccine...
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    experiment in inducing immunity against smallpox using cowpox. The notion that those people infected with cowpox, a relatively mild disease, were subsequently...
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    pioneered the use of a vaccine to immunize persons with an inoculation of cowpox material. The new vaccine was a much safer and more effective way to prevent...
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    Ortho. Variola Smallpox Alastrim Monkeypox virus Monkeypox Cowpox Vaccinia virus Vaccinia Generalized vaccinia Eczema vaccinatum Progressive vaccinia Buffalopox...
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    because they had often been exposed to minor forms of the illness such as cowpox or variola minor disease in childhood. By the late 16th century, there existed...
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    Ortho. Variola Smallpox Alastrim Monkeypox virus Monkeypox Cowpox Vaccinia virus Vaccinia Generalized vaccinia Eczema vaccinatum Progressive vaccinia Buffalopox...
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    running a swimming bath. In addition, he carried out injections against cowpox. When the French troops withdrew from the region in 1814, Haffner remained...
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  • the smallpox vaccine. In 1768 Fewster realized that prior infection with cowpox rendered a person immune to smallpox. Fewster was educated at Bristol Grammar...
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    Ortho. Variola Smallpox Alastrim Monkeypox virus Monkeypox Cowpox Vaccinia virus Vaccinia Generalized vaccinia Eczema vaccinatum Progressive vaccinia Buffalopox...
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    Molluscipoxvirus. Orthopoxvirus: smallpox virus (variola), vaccinia virus, cowpox virus, Mpox virus; Parapoxvirus: orf virus, pseudocowpox, bovine papular...
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    Ortho. Variola Smallpox Alastrim Monkeypox virus Monkeypox Cowpox Vaccinia virus Vaccinia Generalized vaccinia Eczema vaccinatum Progressive vaccinia Buffalopox...
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    theory that a person who had contracted cowpox would be immune from smallpox. To test the theory, he took cowpox vesicles from a milkmaid named Sarah Nelmes...
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    pestis (plague), Rickettsia prowazekii (typhus), Mycobacterium tuberculosis, cowpox virus, and Bartonella henselae were not detected in any of the remains tested...
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  • activation of BAX and BAK. crmA, or cytokine response modifier A, is a cowpox serpin that inhibits caspases 1, 6 and 8, forming complexes with these caspases...
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    Ortho. Variola Smallpox Alastrim Monkeypox virus Monkeypox Cowpox Vaccinia virus Vaccinia Generalized vaccinia Eczema vaccinatum Progressive vaccinia Buffalopox...
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