Cowpox vaccination - Gyuto Sesshu

Japanese: 牛痘接種 - ぎゅうとうせっしゅ
Cowpox vaccination - Gyuto Sesshu

...However, this method was highly dangerous and also became the source of new epidemics. At the end of the 18th century, British physician E. Jenner discovered that people who had been infected with the cowpox virus were not susceptible to smallpox, and he invented the cowpox inoculation method using the cowpox virus. Since then, the cowpox virus has been used instead of the smallpox virus for vaccination, and currently, a method of inoculation using the vaccinia virus, which is safer, has been developed. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "cowpox vaccination" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…しかし,この方法は危険性が高く,また新たな流行の源ともなった。18世紀末になって,イギリスの医師E.ジェンナーは,牛痘ウイルス感染を経験したヒトは,天然痘にかからないことを見いだし,牛痘ウイルスを用いる牛痘接種法を編み出した。これ以降,種痘には天然痘ウイルスにかわって牛痘ウイルスが用いられるようになり,現在では,より安全性の高いワクシニアウイルスを用いる接種法が開発されている。…

※「牛痘接種」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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