cowpox
Cattle skin disease
Cowpox is a mild viral disease of cattle that causes pustular sores on the udders.
The virus is closely related to smallpox, and milkmaids who caught cowpox from infected cows were observed to be immune to smallpox—an observation that led Edward Jenner to develop the first vaccine in 1796.
The disease is now rare in cattle and humans.
Pus-filled skin lesion
- lesionArea of pathological change
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
- zoonosisAnimal-to-human disease transmission
- virusMicroscopic infectious agent
fever · itching · swelling · transmission · incubation · immunity · endemic · outbreak
Milk-based foods collectively
- milkingExtracting animal dairy fluid
- udderMammalian mammary organ
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- herdGrazing animals together
pasture · livestock · barn · milkmaids · heifer · farmhand · teats · bovine
- inoculationInjection conferring disease resistance
- immunizationProtective medical injection
- immunityProtected from harm
- lymphInterstitial body fluid
antigen · vaccination · vaccine · scarification · protection
Pus-filled skin lesions
- blistersRaised fluid-filled skin
- lesionsAreas of damaged tissue
- vesiclesSmall enclosed sacs
- scabsDried wound coverings
redness · inflammation · swelling · crusts · papules · exudation · erythema · itching
Largest British country
- milkmaidsWomen who extract from cows
- GloucestershireSouthwest English county
- preventionStopping something before occurring
- ruralOf the countryside
pustule
Pus-filled skin lesion
- lesionArea of pathological change
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
- zoonosisAnimal-to-human disease transmission
virus · fever · itching · swelling · transmission · incubation · immunity · endemic · outbreak · pathogen
dairy
Milk-based foods collectively
- milkingExtracting animal dairy fluid
- udderMammalian mammary organ
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
herd · pasture · livestock · barn · milkmaids · heifer · farmhand · teats · bovine · cows
Jenner
- inoculationInjection conferring disease resistance
- immunizationProtective medical injection
- immunityProtected from harm
lymph · antigen · vaccination · vaccine · scarification · protection
pustules
Pus-filled skin lesions
scabs · redness · inflammation · swelling · crusts · papules · exudation · erythema · itching · irritation
England
Largest British country
- milkmaidsWomen who extract from cows
- GloucestershireSouthwest English county
- preventionStopping something before occurring
- diseasescancer, diabetes, tuberculosis, influenza, measles
- infectious diseasescholera, anthrax, malaria, measles, flu
- Old Diseasesplague, cholera, typhus, typhoid, dysentery
- Livestock Diseasesbloat, hoof and mouth, anthrax, ketosis, brucellosis
- poxvirusesmonkeypox, mpox, goatpox, lumpy skin
- Virusescoronavirus, influenza virus, adenovirus, herpesvirus, enterovirus