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A Podcast on the Balmis Expedition

  • by René F. Najera, DrPH
  • Posted on December 21, 2019

A quick podcast on the Balmis expedition, which we covered before in Spanish, as we continue to commemorate 40 years of smallpox eradication.

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Our social media avatar for March is Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. As the wife of the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in the early 1700s, Lady Mary pushed for the adoption of the practice of variolation by western nations. Her son, Edward, received the procedure at the age of four. Her letters and observations on the practice made the adoption of variolation a suitable procedure to stave off smallpox in the 80 years or so before Jenner’s smallpox vaccine.
Summary: Photograph shows Canadian soldier being vaccinated at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier, Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec. The camp was established in August 1914 as part of the mobilization of the Canadian Expeditionary Force at the beginning of World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
Title: People from all over the city waiting to get vaccinated, Essen Healthcare, 542 E. 138th St., Bronx⠀
The sterility of each batch of vaccine is tested before it leaves the laboratory. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana. April 1942. Image via the US Library of Congress.
Dr. Schreiber of San Augustine giving a typhoid inoculation at a rural school, San Augustine County, Texas. April 1943. (Remastered)⠀
Title: Vaccination of dogs at Alexandria, Va., 2/21/25⠀

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