follow long after Edward Jenner's famous experiments in 1796. Jenner's experiments provided scientific justification for the practice of inoculation, whereby ‘cowpox’ (most likely Vaccinia virus) was scarified into the dermis as a preventive measure against virulent smallpox disease, thus laying the...
follow long after Edward Jenner's famous experiments in 1796. Jenner's experiments provided scientific justification for the practice of inoculation, whereby ‘cowpox’ (most likely Vaccinia virus) was scarified into the dermis as a preventive measure against virulent smallpox disease, thus laying the...
Smallpox is a serious systemic disease which may kill 40–50% of the unprotected individuals it afflicts. The disease has a characteristic exanthem and disfigures and sometimes blinds most of the survivors. A closely related poxvirus, that of variola min
smallpoxAlastrimepidemicsMpoxIntroduction In 2022, the appearance of cases of Mpox outside the countries where the disease is endemic, and of some cases of human-to-human transmission, alerted the scientific community to a virus that is closely related to the smallpox virus. Mpox is a ...
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae; a Disease Discovered in some of the Western Counties of England, Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of The Cow Pox, London. In Classics of Medicine and Surgery; Camac, C.N.B., Ed.; Dover: Mineola, NY,...
Smallpox is an acute infectious disease unique to humans. The term "smallpox" was first used in Europe in the 15th century to distinguish variola from the great pox (syphilis). Smallpox localizes in small blood vessels of the skin and in the mouth and th
An inquiry into the causes and effects of Variolæ Vaccinaæ, a disease, discovered in some of the western counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and known by the name of Cow Pox. London (1798) 5 Fenner F, Henderson DA, Arita I, Ježek Z, Ladnyi ID Smallpox and its ...
Available online: https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-2022-who-recommends-new-name-for-monkeypox-disease (accessed on 16 December 2022). Marennikova, S.S.; Shelukhina, E.M.; Maltseva, N.N.; Ladnyj, I.D. Monkeypox—Casual agent of smallpox-like human disease. Vopr. Virusol. 197...
Today, World Health Organization (WHO)-sanctioned repositories of live variola virus are currently maintained only at two WHO collaborating centres: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, United States of America, and the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology VECTOR ...