In the meantime, Campe et al have published an article in Emerging Infectious Diseases about the transmission of cowpox from rats to humans in the Munich area (2). Human to human transmission has ...
This similar virus is cowpox. The cow to the left has been intentionally infected with cowpox virus. The fluid that you collect from virus-caused pustules on the cow's udder contains many copies ...
Armed with the knowledge that milkmaids who had been exposed to cowpox, a relatively mild affliction, didn't come down with smallpox, Jenner intentionally infected an eight-year-old boy with cowpox.
A lot of people are staunchly pro-vaccines, some are militant anti-vaxxers and much of the population is wondering what all the fuss is about. If you already have a firm viewpoint on the question of ...