cowpox
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- noun
- /ˈkaʊpɑks/
- Specialized
:
viruela bovina
- Jenner subsequently inoculated several more people with cowpox matter, and on challenge with smallpox matter, they were all resistant to it.
- cowpox infection
- cowpox virus
- inoculated with cowpox
Examples
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And you get in from cowpox, you get immunity to smallpox.
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Some farmers even exposed their own families to cowpox to prevent smallpox.
Blog text (25) -
We investigated four related human cases of cowpox virus infection reported in France during 2011.
Academic text (2013) -
I selected a healthy boy, about eight years old, for the purpose of inoculation for the cowpox.
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Common uneducated people reported that people who had come down with cowpox did not get smallpox.
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Vaccination was discovered by observing the effect of the cowpox virus, another naturally occurring, long-term "experiment."
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Jenner benefited from the crossover immunity from cowpox to smallpox.
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Because the first immunizing material came from cowpox, the term vaccination came to be used (from the Latin vacca, or cow).
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Twenty years of investigation by Jenner preceded the first vaccination in 1796, when Jenner inoculated cowpox matter to prevent smallpox (Jenner 1801).
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Farmers used cowpox from dairy animals to inoculate themselves against smallpox.
Synonyms
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A virus that infects cows and causes mild skin sores and is used in the smallpox vaccine
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cowpox comes from its two parts, cow and pox. The pox part meant 'a disease with blisters', so the name described a mild disease of cows that made blisters on the udders and whose virus was later used to protect people against smallpox.