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Noun(1) a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox(2) a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder(3) formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox

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(1) There's also a review of past cases of transmission of cowpox from the vaccinated to the unvaccinated.(2) Vaccination of smallpox started in the late 18th century with Jenner's cowpox vaccine.(3) And it should be noted, no one has given the cowpox to anyone else, either.(4) Injecting yourself with a cowpox vaccine or medicine made of mould must once have seemed very alternative.(5) He noticed that milkmaids who had recovered from cowpox were resistant to contracting small pox.(6) It is a weakened form of cowpox that is used to make the vaccine.(7) At the end of the 1700s, Jenner realized that people who had contracted cowpox , or u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510vaccinia,u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb didn't get smallpox.(8) Unlike vaccination, which utilised the cowpox virus, inoculation involved the deliberate infection of a susceptible individual.(9) Specialists have sought to mimic the response by devising a vaccine containing HIV virus tucked inside a disabled cowpox virus.(10) A spouse and child came down with a mild case of cowpox .(11) The cowpox virus, which infects a range of animals including humans, has been genetically altered in a similar way.(12) In 1796, Jenner began to infect people first with the far more benign cowpox and then with smallpox.(13) You are always pretty certain to get cowpox ; likewise your nails fester.(14) Other viruses in this group that can cause infection in humans include variola, vaccinia (used in smallpox vaccine), and cowpox viruses.(15) Having been inoculated with cowpox , Phipps was now immune to smallpox.(16) Here's an electron microscope image of a herpes virus and here's the cowpox virus.