What is Cowpox?
Cowpox is a skin and viral disease caused by Cowpox. The disease, characterized by Packmarks similar to falsepox, is related to contact with cows and is a related virus of vaccinia. The Vaccinia virus was responsible for the smallpox virus and its medicine in the 20th century. Less serious than deadly smallpox, Cowpox creates the same kind of mild symptoms as wildpone. The disease is transmitted by direct contact with cows, horses or any other animal bearing this disease and occurs on human skin because rash or red blisters common to other smallpox. Back to at least the 18th century. Testing for Cowpox as a possible cure for smallpox began in 1791, when the German teacher Peter Plette exposed his sons Navirus Cowpox deliberately. This exhibition thus saved them from the pox epidemic, which at that time devastated the area. Cowpox, as well as falsepox, can usually be closed only once in a person's life.
Today, the disease is almost strictly limited to Europe, especially in the UK, and is usually the result of contact with infected domestic cats. Despite its name, this disease is no longer common in cows and instead is limited in forest rodents such as a mouse and similar creatures called Voles. Through contact with these rodents cats contractor the virus and manifested in the form of blisters and lesions on the skin of the cat.
In the summer and autumn, the most common can be infected with direct contact with an infected animal. Many times the infected area is visible only in the area of contact with the animal and can be handed over to another with further contact. The incubation period for the disease is approximately eight to ten days and blisters are generally alleviated, often with minor scarring.
Cowpox, in its history as treatment or vaccine for smallpox, it was used as today is used firing flu. By introducing a virus into the human body, the immune system becomes acquainted with the smallpox and fights the weakI eat related, so the system is immune to similar viruses to smallpox or chickenpox.