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Can immunity be developed against cowpox by using smallpox virus?
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∙ 10y ago
well actually we arent sure but it has been proven if you get any type of pox you wont be infected by smallpox**me:y do they keep all those bottles of smallpox when nobodys getting vaccinated its like they want sombody to steal it!!**
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 13y agoas Edward Jenner said you can cure small pox by giving a small dose of small pox this is the same with cowpox but it's also if you have had small pox you won't get it again if you had chicken pox you won't get it again so if you have cowpox you won't get that again ect. it's I think all to do with your immune system and what it reconises cowpox is almost equivilent to chicken pox so much much less deadly and is hardly likely to kill you there are over 100,000 vaccines of small pox so if it hasn't been eradicated you will have a dose of that vaccine
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∙ 13y agoThe cow pox virus is not dangerous to humans (won't make them sick), but it is very similar to the virus that causes small pox (in terms of the types of proteins they have on their surfaces), so when you inject a human with cow pox, their immune system produces antibodies to the virus, but the virus itself doesn't harm the person. If that same person is then infected with small pox, he/she will have antibodies that the immune system made against the cow pox and these will also work against small pox since it's so similar to cow pox, and the human body will be able to quickly eliminate the virus before it can cause damage.
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What did eward jenner discover about the relationship between smallpox and cowpox?
cowpox gives immunity to smallpox. Jenner observed that people who worked with cattle and contracted cowpox from them.
What year was the smallpox medicine invented?
Edward Jenner developed vaccine against smallpox in 1798. He used cowpox virus containing fluid for the same.
How did jenner know to use the cowpox disease to produce immunity to smallpox?
The observation that milkmaids almost never got smallpox.
Why the milkmaids did not get infected with smallpox?
Well, I think it is the case that cowpox is just a lesser, bovine version of smallpox. Milk maids would get cowpox simply because they were exposed to cattle constantly, much more than the average person, who was more likely to get smallpox than cowcox. A scientist called Edward Jenner observed that milk maids, who often got cowpox, never seemed to get smallpox. This was because milk maids would develop immunity to cowpox (and therefore smallpox) once they had fallen ill and recovered from cowpox. He then tested this theory on a young boy. He did this by injecting cowpox into the boy's blood stream; the boy then fell ill with cowpox. After the boy recovered from cowpox, the scientist then injected him with the life-threatening disease smallpox. The result proved his theory right; the injection of smallpox into the boy's bloodstream had had no effect on him, because his body had developed immunity to the disease. If you wish to learn more about vaccination and immunities, then research antibodies, antigens and vaccination and the way in which they all work.
What are the cures for smallpox?
The cure for smallpox is cowpox. Cowpox is a mild version of smallpox and is usually not fatal. The smallpox vaccine contains cowpox.
Who developed a vaccination for smallpox?
Louis PasteurEdward Jenner found that people who contracted the cowpox virus didn't contract smallpox so he tested it out on a farmer's son who had contracted smallpox that week and he applied the liquid inside a cowpox sore to a cut and then after he healed from cowpox, he injected the liquid from a smallpox sore and the boy didn't contract smallpox.Which is how he found the vaccine...Note: Developed not invented
Who developed a smallpox vaccine?
Louis PasteurEdward Jenner found that people who contracted the cowpox virus didn't contract smallpox so he tested it out on a farmer's son who had contracted smallpox that week and he applied the liquid inside a cowpox sore to a cut and then after he healed from cowpox, he injected the liquid from a smallpox sore and the boy didn't contract smallpox.Which is how he found the vaccine...Note: Developed not invented
How was the smallpox's vaccine discovered?
The smallpox vaccine was the first successful vaccine to be developed. Edward Jenner observed that milkmaids who caught the cowpox virus did not catch smallpox. He started testing by infecting people with actual Cowpox and after successfully finding this to be effective, "mass infecting" people with Cowpox took place. This reduced mortality by Smallpox drastically. Cowpox and Smallpox are closely related but Cowpox only gives the disease in a very mild form in humans. This most likely because it has developed towards cows and not humans. Diseases do not cross the species barrier easily. As a result of the similarities between the two, human bodies start building up an immune respons against both diseases even if only Cowpox is present. Read more at related link below.
Who can get cowpox?
Cowpox is a virus that causes blisters, similar to smallpox. It was most commonly seen in 'milk maids' - young female workers that milked dairy cows for a living - so it was called cowpox. In the 1800s, a physician noted that milk maids who had recovered from cowpox did not contract smallpox, and the first vaccine was developed.
Who invented the vactination for polio?
English doctor Edward Jenner (1749-1823) used the first recorded vaccination. He was inspired to develop the technique when he noticed that dairymaids in rural Gloucestershire who had previously been sick with cowpox did not catch smallpox, a disease similar to cowpox. Jenner wondered if the dairymaids had developed immunity to smallpox, which then often killed people in much-feared epidemics. Jenner tested his theory on an eight-year-old boy named Phipps. He took some matter from a milkmaid's cowpox vesicles (blisters) and injected it into the boy, who then developed temporary immunity (resistance) to smallpox.
Who performed the first vaccination against smallpox with material from a cowpox sore?
edward jenner
What did dr. Edward Jenner use to vaccinate the boy against smallpox?
Antibodies to cowpox virus
