cowpox virus


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Related to cowpox virus: smallpox virus, Monkeypox virus, vaccinia virus

cowpox virus

[′kau̇‚päks ‚vī·rəs]
(virology)
The causative agent of cowpox in cattle.
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In 1790 an English country doctor named Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids appeared not to contract the disease, an observation that ultimately led to the use of the cowpox virus as a vaccine against smallpox.
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There was a time when most schoolchildren knew that in 1770 Edward Jenner, a physician in rural England, observed that milkmaids who contracted cowpox virus on their hands were immune to the far more dangerous smallpox.
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Coincidentally or not, some zoonotic orthopoxvirus species are re-emerging in an increasing and alarming number of cases worldwide, including vaccinia virus in Brazil and India (2), monkeypox virus in Africa (3,4), cowpox virus in Europe and Asia (5), and novel orthopoxvirus-related strains in the United States (in Alaska and Georgia) (6-8).
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In the 19th century, Jenner discovered that inoculation of people with cowpox virus led to smallpox immunity.
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The new vaccine, called MVA85A by researchers, consists of weakened cowpox virus that has been genetically engineered to make a protein normally found on the surface of M.
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