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Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy
The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Cowpox
Date: 1913Reference: PP/HUN/C/1/21Part of: Hunter, Donald (1898-1977)- Digital Images
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Cowpox lesion on a cow's teat.
Royal Veterinary College- Pictures
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Cowpox pustules from the sixth to the eighteenth days of the disease. Watercolour by W. Cuff, 1801.
Cuff, William.Date: 1801Reference: 20153i- Pictures
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Cowpox: areas of affected skin on the face and thumb of a patient, showing the development of the disease (possibly after vaccination?). Colour lithograph, ca. 1880.
Date: [1880]Reference: 576555i- Digital Images
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Chinese C19 woodcut: 'Cowpox inoculation'