Sentences with word «cowpox»

Although now at the forefront of molecular technologies, vaccination has a history in the West going back at least 200 years (vacca - «cow» refers to Edward Jenner's use of cowpox against smallpox).

If you work on vaccines you know the story of British physician Edward Jenner, whose observation that dairymaids infected with cowpox made them resistant to the far more virulent smallpox virus led him to develop, in 1796, the first experimental vaccine.

Pexa - Vec is an engineered virus based on the harmless vaccinia cowpox virus — also the basis for the original smallpox vaccine.

Giving people cowpox to prevent smallpox was an early form of vaccination.

Vaccine pioneer Edward Jenner put cowpox fluid into James Phipps's arm in 1796, then challenged him with smallpox.

Human challenges date back to the 18th century and the first vaccine, when English physician Edward Jenner attempted to persuade the world that infecting a person with harmless cowpox could prevent disease from its dreaded cousin, smallpox.

By injecting cowpox antigens into his patients» bloodstream, for instance, Jenner primed their immune systems to attack the similar smallpox virus.

The English physician knew that dairymaids who contracted cowpox, a comparatively mild skin disease, became immune to the much deadlier smallpox, which at the time killed 400,000 Europeans a year.

Meanwhile, phase 1 trials are to begin early next year for a two - vaccine regimen involving an adenovirus - based vaccine developed by US pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson and the NIAID, and a vaccine that is made from vaccinia (a virus similar to the one that causes cowpox) developed by Bavarian Nordic in Denmark.

We credit Edward Jenner (a British doctor) for discovering vaccines in 1796 when he successfully tested a vaccine for cowpox but the troublesome fact is that that China recorded the first inoculation (smallpox) in 200 BC.

This can be done by presenting the immune system with weakened germs (polio in people, distemper in dogs), killed or inactivated germs (rabies for dogs, horses, and people, some Lyme disease vaccines for dogs); parts of germs (newer Lyme vaccines for dogs and Rabies vaccines for cats); or similar germs (early use of cowpox to prevent smallpox in people, measles vaccine to prevent distemper in dogs).

Back then, Jenner injected people with cowpox to protect them against the much more harmful smallpox.

The vaccine tested in Cape Town in 2013 was MVA 85A, a modification of the cowpox vaccine designed to express a major protein of the TB bacterium.

The vaccinia virus has been developed by the biotechnology company Jennerex — named after Edward Jenner, who in the 18th century discovered that a cowpox virus could inoculate against smallpox.

Jenner hoped the fluid from the cowpox lesion would somehow inoculate the boy against the smallpox scourge.

Today vaccines (vaccinia is Latin for «cowpox») of all forms save 3 million lives per year worldwide, and at a bargain price.

One thing that really stands out in this segment is how ignorance and fear work together, such as public panic in the 19th century that a cowpox - derived smallpox vaccine could turn you into a cow.

Jenner scraped «matter» taken from a cowpox sore on a dairymaid's hand into the skin of 8 - year - old James Phipps, the son of his occasional gardener, and then repeatedly tried to infect him with smallpox.

Such cross-protection is the case with cowpox and smallpox, and a vaccine currently in use for Japanese encephalitis protects some animals against the closely related West Nile virus.

Jenner's strategy sounded simple: He inoculated an eight - year - old boy with pus scraped from the cowpox blisters of one of those milkmaids and then inoculated the child six weeks later with matter from a fresh smallpox lesion to prove his hypothesis.

Thuja's reputation for helping with vaccine reactions arose during the days when the only vaccine that existed was the smallpox (cowpox) vaccine.