Derrick Baxby

Derrick Baxby was a British microbiologist and authority on Orthopoxviruses. He was a senior lecturer in medical microbiology at the University of Liverpool.
He proposed that a presumed horsepox virus could be the long-sought ancestor of vaccinia. 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.

, Current Biology, Vol. 6, No. 7, pp. 769–772.
"The End of Smallpox", History Today, Vol. 49, No. 3.
"Edward Jenner's Inquiry; A Bicentenary Analysis", Vaccine, 1999 January 28;17:301-7.