February 8, 2011 (Vienna, Austria) — The first human cowpox virus infection in the United States has been documented in an unvaccinated laboratory researcher, according to a report by ...

Our findings highlight the need to strengthen global surveillance for orthopoxvirus infections in both humans and animals. The majority of modern cowpox virus infections have been reported in ...

Around thirty Europeans, including twenty French citizens, have recently contracted a viral infection linked to their pet rat. Two reseach teams in Marseille, France, led by Didier Raoult ...

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 ...

Despite the importance of cowpox in human medicine the virus has attracted relatively little attention and how the many forms of cowpox are related was until recently a matter of conjecture.

The diagnosis was: cowpox, long a rare disease among animals, as well as among humans. The treatment: applications of mercurochrome and hydrogen peroxide to the sores and wet dressings of aluminum ...

Cowpox can infect multiple animal species, including cows, cats and humans. It's closely related to the vaccinia virus, which is used in the smallpox vaccine. (The physician Edward Jennor famously ...

Cowpox virus is not highly infectious for humans and usually results in localised lesions mainly on fingers, hands, or the face. The disease runs its course over a few weeks - as was the case with ...

Note the bovine observer at the door. Courtesy Science Photo Library __1796: __Edward Jenner inoculates a boy with cowpox. After the lad recovers from the infection, Jenner inoculates him with ...

Public Health Wales said the last reported human case in Wales was some 10 to 15 years ago. Cowpox was more common in the 18th Century when milking maids often caught it. The virus, which is not ...

I read the article by Becker et al, on cowpox infections in owners of pet rats (1), with great interest as I was involved with cowpox through my work from 1970 to 1974. The authors write that ...