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    inspired the modern smallpox vaccine, created and administered by English physician Edward Jenner. The first description of cowpox was given by Jenner in 1798...
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    relatively mild cowpox virus conferred immunity against the deadly smallpox virus. Cowpox served as a natural vaccine until the modern smallpox vaccine emerged...
    112 KB (12,177 words) - 14:33, 31 May 2024
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    Edward Jenner (category Smallpox vaccines)
    humans a cowpox vaccine against smallpox. For example, Dorset farmer Benjamin Jesty successfully vaccinated and presumably induced immunity with cowpox in his...
    58 KB (5,781 words) - 06:46, 30 June 2024
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    The Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine is a vaccine primarily used against tuberculosis (TB). It is named after its inventors Albert Calmette and Camille...
    88 KB (8,687 words) - 02:46, 29 July 2024
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    experimental cowpox vaccine by Edward Jenner. Jenner knew of a local belief that dairy workers who had contracted a relatively mild infection called cowpox were...
    7 KB (779 words) - 01:28, 2 January 2024
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    Vaccinia (redirect from Vaccinia vaccine)
    Downie demonstrated in 1939 that the modern smallpox vaccine was serologically distinct from cowpox, and vaccinia was subsequently recognized as a separate...
    29 KB (3,342 words) - 04:11, 11 June 2024
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    Edward Jenner (who both developed the concept of vaccines and created the first vaccine) to denote cowpox. He used the phrase in 1798 for the long title...
    140 KB (14,467 words) - 20:33, 26 June 2024
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    Vaccination (redirect from Vaccine failure)
    'true' and 'spurious' cowpox (which did not give the desired effect) and developed an "arm-to-arm" method of propagating the vaccine from the vaccinated...
    97 KB (9,979 words) - 17:27, 20 July 2024
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    Anthrax vaccines are vaccines to prevent the livestock and human disease anthrax, caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. They have had a prominent...
    24 KB (2,809 words) - 05:05, 21 July 2024
  • vaccine was for smallpox. Edward Jenner used cowpox pus to create immunity. Notable subsequent vaccines include polio, flu (influenza), hepatitis A and...
    9 KB (859 words) - 12:55, 19 June 2024
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    ISBN 0-12-083475-8. Creighton C (1887). The Natural History of Cowpox and Vaccinal Syphilis. London: Cassell. Williamson S (2007). The Vaccination Controversy;...
    230 KB (25,239 words) - 18:29, 1 July 2024
  • An attenuated vaccine (or a live attenuated vaccine, LAV) is a vaccine created by reducing the virulence of a pathogen, but still keeping it viable (or...
    40 KB (4,240 words) - 12:21, 20 April 2024
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    Edo period and early Meiji era. He was the first surgeon to give a cowpox vaccine in Japan, between 1858 and 1860. Itō Genboku's offices were later expanded...
    916 bytes (84 words) - 23:16, 3 July 2024
  • species in this genus. Diseases associated with this genus include smallpox, cowpox, horsepox, camelpox, and mpox. The most widely known member of the genus...
    16 KB (1,823 words) - 20:15, 2 April 2024
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    variolation in 1729, but the technique was not propagated. The Jenner cowpox vaccine was not introduced in Brazil until 1808. Variolation was prohibited...
    62 KB (6,476 words) - 13:50, 20 June 2024
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    Benjamin Waterhouse (category Smallpox vaccines)
    Edward Jenner's method of cowpox vaccination in the United States. He attempted to maintain a monopoly over the cowpox vaccine, for both financial reasons...
    13 KB (1,342 words) - 13:08, 10 March 2024
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    medicine. The first animal vaccine invented was for chicken cholera in 1879 by Louis Pasteur. The production of such vaccines encounter issues in relation...
    22 KB (2,607 words) - 18:00, 2 July 2024
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    A DNA vaccine is a type of vaccine that transfects a specific antigen-coding DNA sequence into the cells of an organism as a mechanism to induce an immune...
    77 KB (8,381 words) - 00:49, 24 July 2024
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    Edward Jenner pioneered the use of a vaccine to immunize persons with an inoculation of cowpox material. The new vaccine was a much safer and more effective...
    11 KB (1,127 words) - 17:59, 28 July 2024
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    Chickenpox (category Vaccine-preventable diseases)
    known as varicella (/ˌvɛrəˈsɛlə/ VER-ə-SEL-ə), is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease caused by the initial infection with varicella zoster...
    64 KB (6,447 words) - 09:11, 24 July 2024
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