In 1796, Jenner began to infect people first with the far more benign cowpox and then with smallpox. |
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And it should be noted, no one has given the cowpox to anyone else, either. |
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Other viruses in this group that can cause infection in humans include variola, vaccinia, and cowpox viruses. |
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Here's an electron microscope image of a herpes virus and here's the cowpox virus. |
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Unlike vaccination, which utilised the cowpox virus, inoculation involved the deliberate infection of a susceptible individual. |
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There's also a review of past cases of transmission of cowpox from the vaccinated to the unvaccinated. |
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Jim had only slept that late once, the week and a half when he had gotten the cowpox. |
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Injecting yourself with a cowpox vaccine or medicine made of mould must once have seemed very alternative. |
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Vaccination of smallpox started in the late 18th century with Jenner's cowpox vaccine. |
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The process induced cowpox, a mild viral disease that conferred immunity to smallpox. |
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He showed that cowpox vaccination prevented smallpox in a child deliberately exposed to the disease. |
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He noticed that milkmaids who had recovered from cowpox were resistant to contracting small pox. |
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In 1798, the British physician Edward Jenner used a milkmaid's lymph containing cowpox virus to vaccinate a child. |
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The cowpox virus, which infects a range of animals including humans, has been genetically altered in a similar way. |
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Specialists have sought to mimic the response by devising a vaccine containing HIV virus tucked inside a disabled cowpox virus. |
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He used the mild disease cowpox to confer immunity for the potentially fatal but biochemically similar smallpox. |
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The only example to date is the cowpox virus that protects against smallpox in man. |
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Jenner found that cowpox infection protected people against the much more dangerous smallpox. |
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Cancer was practically unknown until cowpox vaccination began to be introduced. |
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Having been inoculated with cowpox, Phipps was now immune to smallpox. |
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In fact, what Jenner used was not cowpox but vaccinia, a close viral relation. |
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It is a weakened form of cowpox that is used to make the vaccine. |
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He concluded that cowpox inoculation was a safe alternative to smallpox inoculation, but rashly claimed that the protective effect was lifelong. |
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By 1768, English physician John Fewster had realised that prior infection with cowpox rendered a person immune to smallpox. |
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Some think it may have mutated from cowpox. |
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Inoculation in these days involved the actual transmission of smallpox, not the cowpox vaccines developed in the 1790s by the English surgeon Edward Jenner, and was itself moderately risky. |
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When Edward Jenner first induced immunity to smallpox, back in 1796, he did it by scratching the skin to allow small amounts of the cowpox virus to enter the body. |
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In 1798, the tentative hope that the disease could be finally controlled emerged when Edward Jenner demonstrated that inoculation with cowpox could protect humans against the smallpox virus. |
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Another area of research involved the modification of the cowpox virus so that it might cross species barriers and infect 12 other species, such as humans. |
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Moreover, he demonstrated that the protective cowpox pus could be effectively inoculated from person to person, not just directly from cattle. |
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Other vaccine material was not reliably derived from cowpox, but from other skin eruptions of cattle. |
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In 1768 Dr John Fewster reported that variolation induced no reaction in persons who had had cowpox. |
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He observed that people who caught cowpox while working with cattle were known not to catch smallpox. |
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This confirmed his childhood suspicion, and he studied cowpox further, presenting a paper on it to his local medical society. |
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In 1796, Sarah Nelmes, a local milkmaid, contracted cowpox and went to Jenner for treatment. |
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Jenner contributed papers on angina pectoris, ophthalmia, and cardiac valvular disease and commented on cowpox. |
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He may have done some cowpox inoculations in 1796 at about the same time that Jenner vaccinated Phipps. |
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Vaccinia, cowpox, and monkeypox viruses can infect both humans and other animals in nature. |
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During the 19th century, the cowpox virus used for smallpox vaccination was replaced by vaccinia virus. |
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Vaccinia is in the same family as cowpox and variola, but is genetically distinct from both. |
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Monkeypox is part of a family of viruses that cause human smallpox, cowpox, and camelpox as well as monkeypox. |
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But the vaccines were made using the benign cowpox virus, and surely we can keep that for our defence. |
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These were done and in 1798 Jenner published an analysis of 23 'cases' including several individuals who had resisted natural exposure after previous cowpox. |
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Although Jenner used cowpox, the vaccine now contains a virus immunologically related to cowpox and smallpox viruses called vaccinia which causes a mild infection. |
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Conditions such as chickenpox and cowpox have become common terms in our language, and chickenpox was once an anticipated experience of childhood. |
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To evaluate the possibility that cowpox virus may cause disease among Eurasian lynx, we searched for evidence of OPV infection in this large, free-ranging felid in Sweden. |
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Prior to admission, all children were given a cowpox vaccination to prevent smallpox, and some orphanages employed a chirurgeon who provided the necessary medical care. |
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When a smallpox epidemic occurred he advised the local cattle workers to be inoculated, but they told him that their previous cowpox infection would prevent smallpox. |
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