The observation that milkmaids are frequently infected with cowpox but rarely catch smallpox is generally credited to the English doctor Edward Jenner. Although Jenner might not have been the first ...

A British teenager was infected with a virus so rare that it hadn't been seen by doctors in 15 years A TEENAGE boy found himself covered in pus-filled lesions after contracting a 18th century cowpox ...

A 15-year-old boy has surprised doctors by contracting cowpox, a historical disease now so rare it has not been seen in Wales for more than a decade. The teenager, who lives on the Wrexham-Cheshire ...

There have been virtually no studies of 'who acquires infection from whom' in wildlife populations, but patterns of transmission within and between different classes of host are likely to be reflected ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Between mid-January and mid-February 2009, 33 human cases of cowpox were reportedly diagnosed in France (15 ...

A vaccine against smallpox exists, but governments’ supplies have dwindled since the disease was declared eradicated in 1980. Smallpox virus is preserved in laboratories in the United States and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Cowpox virus (Brighton Red strain) possesses one of the largest genomes in the Orthopoxvirus genus. Sequence analysis of a region of the ...

A 15-year-old has shocked doctors after contracting the first case of cowpox Wales has seen in over a decade. The teenager developed pus-filled sores on his hands and feet after feeding calves and ...

A Dutch teenager has been infected with an incredibly rare virus after attempting to rescue a drowning kitten. The 17-year-old developed a blackened wound on her wrist after picking up the dying ...

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The observation that milkmaids are frequently infected with cowpox but rarely catch smallpox is generally credited to the English doctor Edward Jenner. Although Jenner might not have been the first ...