vaccinia
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- n a local infection induced in humans by inoculation with the virus causing cowpox in order to confer resistance to smallpox; normally lasts three weeks and leaves a pitted scar
- n a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox
- It doesn't contain the smallpox virus, but it does use a live version of a related one, called vaccinia, that can make you sick and, in rare instances, kill you.
- And the company's vaccinia immune globulin, VIG, which has completed the second of its three Phase I trials, could make smallpox vaccines more useful by countering their .
- The re- engineered vaccinia would then sport the antigens of the harmful viruses, but not their ability to cause disease.