Cowpox - Wikipedia
网页Cowpox is an infectious disease caused by the cowpox virus (CPXV). [2] It presents with large blisters in the skin, a fever and swollen glands, historically typically following contact with an infected cow, though in the last several decades more often (though overall rarely) from infected cats. [3]
Cowpox | Cause, Symptoms, & Treatment | Britannica
网页Cowpox, uncommon mildly eruptive disease of animals that when transmitted to otherwise healthy humans produces immunity to smallpox. The cowpox virus is closely related to variola, the causative virus of smallpox. Learn about the history, causative virus, and characteristics of cowpox.
The chilling experiment which created the first vaccine - BBC
网页2020年9月29日 · Milkmaids instead contracted a relatively mild cattle disease called cowpox, which left little scarring. During a smallpox epidemic in the west of England in 1774, farmer Benjamin Jesty decided...
Cowpox - DermNet
网页What is cowpox? Cowpox is a viral skin infection caused by the cowpox or catpox virus. This is a member of the Orthopoxvirus family, which includes the variola virus that causes smallpox. Cowpox is similar to but much milder than the highly contagious and sometimes deadly smallpox disease.
History of smallpox: Outbreaks and vaccine timeline - Mayo Clinic
网页History of smallpox: Outbreaks and vaccine timeline. Learn about the development, use and impact of the smallpox vaccine. Dr. Edward Jenner vaccinates his child against smallpox. Dr. Edward Jenner finds that vaccination with the cowpox virus can protect a person from smallpox infection and creates a smallpox vaccine.
Cowpox in Cattle - Merck Veterinary Manual
网页In cowpox, a mild, eruptive disease of dairy cows, lesions are seen on the udder and teats. Although once common, cowpox is now extremely rare and reported only in western Europe. The virus of cowpox is closely related antigenically to vaccinia and smallpox viruses.
History of smallpox vaccination - World Health Organization …
网页One of the deadliest diseases known to humans, smallpox remains the only human disease to have been eradicated. Many believe this achievement to be the most significant milestone in global public health.
The Disease Ecology, Epidemiology, Clinical Manifestations, …
网页2021年9月22日 · The cowpox virus is an orthopoxvirus with a reservoir in wild rodents and is no longer found in cows. 17, 18 Cowpox is endemic in rats and feral cats throughout Europe and Asia and is typically transmitted to humans via close contact with accidental animal hosts, especially pet rats and cats that acquire infections from mice and other wild ...
Smallpox: Background, Etiology, Epidemiology - Medscape
网页2014年3月21日 · Smallpox is an acute, contagious disease caused by the variola virus, a member of the genus Orthopoxvirus, in the Poxviridae family (see the image below). Virologists have speculated that it...
Smallpox Vaccine - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
网页The smallpox vaccine is made using a poxvirus that infects cows (cowpox). Cowpox causes disease in cows, but it rarely causes disease in humans. Because cowpox and human smallpox are similar, infection with cowpox can protect people against smallpox.
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