Derrick Baxby (1940 – 24 March 2017) was a British microbiologist and authority on ''

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''. He was a senior lecturer in medical microbiology at the

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

. He proposed that a presumed horsepox virus could be the long-sought ancestor of

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. In 1977, he reported 12 cases of cowpox occurring in England between 1965 and 1976.

Selected publications

* ''Jenner's Smallpox Vaccine: The Riddle of Vaccinia Virus and Its Origin''. Heinemann Educational Books, London, 1981.
"Two hundred years of vaccination"
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'', Vol. 6 (1996), No. 7, pp. 769–772. * "The End of Smallpox", ''

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'', Vol. 49, No. 3 (March 1999). * "Edward Jenner's Inquiry; A Bicentenary Analysis", ''

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'', 1999 January 28;17(4):301-7.

References

External links

* 1940 births 2017 deaths Smallpox Academics of the University of Liverpool British microbiologists {{UK-med-bio-stub