Cow pox

cowpox /cow·pox/ (kou´poks) a mild eruptive disease of milk cows, confined to the udder and teats, due to cowpox virus, and transmissible to humans.

cow·pox (kou

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A mild, contagious skin disease of cattle, usually affecting the udder, that is caused by a virus and characterized by the eruption of a pustular rash. When the virus is transmitted to humans, as by vaccination, it can confer immunity to smallpox. Also called vaccinia.

cowpox

[kou′poks]

Etymology: AS, cu + ME, pokkes

a mild infectious disease characterized by a pustular rash, caused by the vaccinia virus. Animals that carry the vaccinia virus are cows, cats, and rodents. Human cases are usually rare. Transmission to humans can occur during the milking of a cow with active lesions on the udder and teats, but the disease is usually transmitted by domesticated cats. Cowpox infection usually confers immunity to smallpox, because of the similarity of the variola and vaccinia viruses. Also called cat pox. See also smallpox, vaccinia.

cowpox [kow´poks]

a mild pustular eruption affecting milk cows, usually confined to the udder and teats, caused by the vaccinia virus, and transmissible to humans. Edward Jenner, in the 18th century, discovered that cowpox could be transmitted to humans who milked or tended cattle, and also noted that persons who contracted it in this way seldom contracted smallpox. This discovery led to vaccination against smallpox.

cowpox

a benign, contagious disease of cows characterized by the appearance of pox lesions on the teat and udder skin. The causative virus is in the genus Orthopoxvirus. Typical lesions are a patch of erythema, then a papule, followed by a vesicle, then a pustule and finally a scab. The disease is transmissible to humans and is now rare.

cowpox virus

a poxvirus which is antigenically distinct from vaccinia virus and pseudocowpox virus. The characteristics of the virus are otherwise identical with the vaccinia virus. See also vaccinia.

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attenuated virus
buffalopox
cat pox
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defective virus
dengue virus
DNA virus
EB virus
Ebola virus
encephalomyocarditis virus
fixed virus
generalized vaccinia
helper virus
herpes simplex virus
herpes virus
human immunodeficiency virus
human T-cell leukemia virus
influenza A virus
influenza virus

Hailed as historic legislation by Colorado public health leaders, the new law recognizes that public health has evolved over time to deal with more than just the diseases that century ago, such as cow pox and cholera.

Colorado welcomes historic public health reform: new legislation ... by Johnson, Teddi Dineley / The Nation's Health

Some of the diseases are almost unheard of today, including tuberculosis, foot and mouth disease, cow pox and Texas fever.

Veterinary medicine in the 1800s by Belanger, J.D. / Countryside & Small Stock Journal

Prof Begon says more work is needed to understand hidden diseases such as the bubonic plague, cow pox or certain kinds of TB, which are endemic in the rodent population.

The plaguebusters; Rats under microscope by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

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