Derrick Baxby (1940 – 24 March 2017) was a British microbiologist and authority onOrthopoxviruses.^[1][2] He was a senior lecturer in medical microbiology at theUniversity of Liverpool.^[3]

He proposed that a presumed horsepox virus could be the long-sought ancestor ofvaccinia.^[4] In 1977, he reported 12 cases ofcowpox occurring in England between 1965 and 1976.^[4]

• Jenner's Smallpox Vaccine: The Riddle of Vaccinia Virus and Its Origin. Heinemann Educational Books, London, 1981.ISBN 0435540572^[5][6]
• "Two hundred years of vaccination",Current Biology, Vol. 6 (1996), No. 7, pp. 769–772.
• "The End of Smallpox",History Today, Vol. 49, No. 3 (March 1999).
• "Edward Jenner's Inquiry; A Bicentenary Analysis",Vaccine, 1999 January 28;17(4):301-7.

• "Derrick Baxby's research works - University of Liverpool, Liverpool (UoL) and other places".ResearchGate.net. Retrieved1 October 2018.

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