It is worth reading, to know more about it, the book that Luis Enjuanes, CSIC researcher at the National Center for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), coordinated together with Susana Ramírez, doctor in American History: The Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition: two hundred years of fighting smallpox (2004, CSIC Publishing).
That heroic feat was so important that in June of this same year the documentation that is preserved about it in the National Historical Archive, in Madrid, and the General Archive of the Indies, in Seville, was registered in the Registry. Memory of the World of UNESCO, at the proposal of the Ministry of Culture and Sports. And in July, the Ministry of Health hosted the exhibition at its headquarters The Smallpox Vaccine. Its diffusion in Spain and Americaorganized by the Royal National Academy of Medicine, the Infanta Margarita Medicine Museum and the CSAI Foundation.
The very rapid development, approval, production and global distribution of vaccines against covid-19which is estimated to have directly saved more than a million people in Europe alone between December 2020 and March 2022, will also henceforth be celebrated as a major milestone in international public health, along with the Jenner smallpox vaccine. and the Balmis expedition.
And when, as is happening now, we suffer a serious humanitarian and health setback (Gaza, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Haiti, Burkina Faso, South Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Somalia…), it is very important let us not forget all the good that we are capable of as humanityfor our own good.
“Feed the spirit with great thoughts. The faith in heroism makes heroes” (Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, politician and writer, who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom).
2023-12-03 07:00:00
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