Word: cowpox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Made from an organism found in voles (British field mice). This bacillus (Mycobacterium muris) is a close kin to the human-type tubercle bacillus, but does not cause disease in man. The question before this test was whether it could confer immunity against TB (as cowpox does against smallpox...