But because of the similarity of the viruses, the immune response that people developed would also protect them against natural infections with variola.

因为这两种病毒很相像,人体的免疫应答也能保护自己,免受天花的感染

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But variola, which causes smallpox in humans, and vaccinia, which causes a disease called cowpox in cattle, turned out to be, we now know, viruses that are molecularly very similar.

但是导致天花的人痘病毒,和导致牛痘,的牛痘病毒,后来发现其实是,我们现在知道,这两种病毒在分子水平上十分相似

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