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The vaccine was carried as far as Texas in the north and New Granada in the south. In Mexico City, he had to convince the viceroy, José de Iturrigaray, but he did so, and the viceroy had his son vaccinated. In 1806 Balmis sailed from Acapulco for Manila, and in 1806 arrived back in Spain. He returned to Mexico again in 1810.
The vaccine first reached Spain in late 1800 and by the end of 1801, several thousand persons had been vaccinated across the country. The efforts were well publicised in Spain and by 1804, dozens of papers, treatises, newspaper articles, and editorials had been published on the smallpox vaccine. [5] Francisco Javier de Balmis was a military ...
Rosalia Lombardo (13 December 1918 – 6 December 1920) [1] was a Palermitan child who died of pneumonia, resulting from the Spanish flu, [2] one week before her second birthday. Rosalia's father, Mario Lombardo, grieving her death, asked Alfredo Salafia , an embalmer , to preserve her remains. [ 3 ]
During the worldwide Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, "Pharmacists tried everything they knew, everything they had ever heard of, from the ancient art of bleeding patients, to administering oxygen, to developing new vaccines and serums (chiefly against what we call Hemophilus influenzae – a name derived from the fact that it was originally considered the etiological agent – and several types ...
Swine flu was a boon for the anti-vaccine movement, which had suffered in recent years: Its leading researcher had been discredited, the theorized link between autism and vaccines disproven, and ...
This is a timeline of the development of prophylactic human vaccines. Early vaccines may be listed by the first year of development or testing, but later entries usually show the year the vaccine finished trials and became available on the market. Although vaccines exist for the diseases listed below, only smallpox has
A 9-year-old girl from Clermont County is the first child in the state to die from influenza-related complications in the 2023-2024 flu season, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
A family in Texas is stupefied after what should have been a simple flu shot ended up sending their 9-year-old daughter to the hospital. Brianna Browning was perfectly healthy in the beginning of ...