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What does vaccinia mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) An infection of cowpox
  2. by extension, the virus which causes this infection
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For example, vaccinia immune globulin, or VIG, is stored and ready for the next person who becomes ill from smallpox vaccine.
The view that vaccinia is attenuated variola is well known, and has been extensively adopted by English physicians.
Jenner waited only four years before declaring that the vaccine that he named vaccinia provided immunity from smallpox for life.
One uses the vaccinia virus, a relatively harmless virus used in smallpox vaccines, and the second uses the fowlpox vaccine.
The vaccine does not contain the Variola virus which causes smallpox, but a closely related virus called vaccinia.
A live, replicating virus, vaccinia can cause side effects, which on rare occasions can be serious and potentially life-threatening.

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