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Chrispy
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Chrispy asked in Science & MathematicsMedicine · 1 decade ago

Could the cowpox virus be transmitted from human to human?

I know that dairymaids were usually exposed to the virus early on in their careers, and that this exposure immunized them from smallpox, but could this virus also be transmitted from the dairymaids to their families and friends?

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  • Joe T
    1 decade ago
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    Cows to humans and some wild rodents to humans have been reported but there has yet to be a reported transmission from human to human.

    Source(s): virologist. Verified in Clinical Virology, 3d Ed., Ch. 18.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    As the below CDC article states the "virus is not well adapted to interhuman spread".

    http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol9no11/02-0814.htm

  • Jenn
    1 decade ago

    yes

  • :)
    1 decade ago

    yes...

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