The double-stranded-DNA virus, which comes from the same genus as smallpox, monkeypox and cowpox, was first identified in an ...

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.

Japan approves SIGA's TEPOXX, the first antiviral for orthopoxviruses, for smallpox, mpox, cowpox, and vaccine-related complications. Approval is based on 15 clinical trials and pivotal animal ...

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 ...