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 U.K. woman developed a severe eye infection thanks to a rare virus — cowpox, a cousin of smallpox, which she contracted from her pet cat. The 28-year-old woman went to the emergency room after ...

There was even an early hope that it might eventually vanquish the disease forever. Cowpox hysteria Such was the frenzy around the first vaccines that, in one piece of perfectly serious anti ...

Cowpox virus: Old friend but new foe Date: September 14, 2011 Source: Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien Summary: The observation that milkmaids are frequently infected with cowpox but ...

During a smallpox epidemic in 1774, English farmer Benjamin Jesty used the cowpox virus to successfully inoculate his wife but did not make his experiment public. In 1716 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ...