Derrick Baxby (1940 – 24 March 2017) was a British microbiologist and authority on Orthopoxviruses.
[1][2] He was a senior lecturer in medical microbiology at the University of Liverpool.
[3] He proposed that a presumed horsepox virus could be the long-sought ancestor of vaccinia.
[4] In 1977, he reported 12 cases of cowpox occurring in England between 1965 and 1976.
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