How to Use cowpox in a Sentence

cowpox

noun
  • But those vaccination strains—then and to this day—aren’t cowpox.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2017
  • This virus is like cowpox and smallpox but not identical to either.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Monkeypox is one, as is smallpox and cowpox, the latter of which is rare in humans.
    — Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Monkeypox is a virus from the same family that causes smallpox and cowpox.
    — Molly Stellino, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Diseases linked with the virus include cowpox, monkeypox and smallpox.
    — Melissa Gomezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2022
  • Loy had done that vindicated Jenner’s ideas about the origins of cowpox.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2021
  • Jesty vaccinated his wife and two sons with pus from a cowpox lesion, using his wife’s knitting needle.
    — William F. Bynum, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2018
  • Those who worked closely with cows and contracted an illness called cowpox didn’t contract the horror that was smallpox.
    — Christian Millman, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Studies have shown that monkeypox is linked to the Orthopoxvirus genus, which is also found in smallpox and cowpox.
    — Ahjané Forbes, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2022
  • Monkeypox is a disease caused by a virus closely related to the viruses that cause smallpox and cowpox.
    — Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 21 May 2022
  • That’s because the vaccine used to prevent smallpox was likely horsepox, not cowpox, researchers say.
    — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 11 Oct. 2017
  • To the immune system, vaccinia and cowpox are not interchangeable.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Many viruses that cause disease in humans can also infect animals — think of Jenner’s cowpox.
    — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Monkeypox is a rare disease that comes from the same family of viruses as smallpox, which includes cowpox, camelpox, horsepox and others.
    — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 24 May 2022
  • Nine days or so after vaccination, the boys developed the typical cowpox lesions on their bodies.
    — Hannah Seo, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The initial challenge faced by the man in charge of this expedition, Francisco Balmis, was how to get viable cowpox across the ocean.
    — The Economist, 23 Mar. 2021
  • These include viruses that infect various animal species, such as camelpox, horsepox, cowpox and raccoonpox.
    — Tara C. Smith, Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Following the spread of monkeypox to dozens of non-endemic countries, positive orthopoxvirus tests were assumed not to indicate cowpox or camelpox.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • The Orthopoxvirus genus also includes variola virus (which causes smallpox), vaccinia virus (used in the smallpox vaccine), and cowpox virus.
    — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2022
  • One of the individuals in the study was treated with tecovirimat — an oral medicine used to treat smallpox, cowpox and monkeypox, all three of which belong to the orthopoxvirus family.
    — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 25 May 2022
  • Edward Jenner inoculating an 8-year-old boy with cowpox and then exposing him to smallpox more 200 years ago.
    — Andrea L. Cox, STAT, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The British doctor Edward Jenner published research on the use of cowpox (vaccinia) virus in the prevention of smallpox in humans.
    — Albert Bourla, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Monkeypox is a virus related to smallpox and cowpox, and prior to the current outbreak was rarely reported outside of Africa, where the disease is endemic.
    — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2022
  • This led the scientist Edward Jenner to try intentionally infecting a boy with cowpox as a prospective treatment.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 1 June 2018
  • In 1796, English physician Edward Jenner infected a young boy with cowpox.
    — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Edward Jenner showed in 1796 that injection with less virulent cowpox could protect people against deadly smallpox.
    — National Geographic, 15 July 2020
  • Ten years earlier, Jenner had intentionally infected a boy with cowpox, in order to protect him against the much more terrifying smallpox disease.
    — Kyle Harper, Time, 5 Oct. 2021
  • In the late 18th century, British physician Edward Jenner inoculated a young boy with cowpox virus and then exposed him to smallpox.
    — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Convinced by anecdotes of farmworkers who had contracted cowpox and not smallpox, Edward Jenner hypothesized the cowpox protected them.
    — USA Today, 6 May 2026
  • Monkeypox, a rare disease related to smallpox and cowpox, was first identified in 1958 among colonies of monkeys kept for research, according to the CDC.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune, 6 June 2022

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