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Formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox
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cowpox
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Wiktionary
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n. A pustular, eruptive skin disease of cattle caused by an (taxlink Orthopoxvirus genus noshow=1), with lesions occurring principally on the udder and teats. Human infection may occur from touching cows, and gives immunity to smallpox.
WordNet
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n. a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox [syn: vaccinia ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cowpox \Cow"pox`\ (-p[o^]ks`), n. (Med.) A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox , cowpock , and kinepock . --Dunglison.
Wikipedia
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Cowpox is an infectious disease caused by the cowpox virus. The virus, part of the orthopoxvirus family, is closely related to the vaccinia virus. The virus is zoonotic , meaning that it is transferable between species, such as from animal to human. The ...
Usage examples of cowpox.
Best guess, back in the twentieth, was that it was a mutation of cowpox, probably started among pastoralists somewhere.
The example she used was of the development of smallpox vaccine using cowpox by Jenner.
In 1798, however, an English country doctor named Edward Jenner proved that inoculation with a related but nonfatal virus called cowpox could protect against smallpox, offering hope for the first time that the disease could be stemmed.
Eventually, the cowpox vaccine was replaced by one made with the vaccinia virus, which produced fewer side effects.
Two of those other patients were suffering from cowpox contracted to protect them against smallpox.
It is unlikely that any cow present in Grantville will have cowpox, and horsepox, also known as "grease," was as extinct as smallpox in the time Grantville came from.