BALMIS’ EXPEDITION

Transportation of the Vaccine from England to South America

Name: Edward Jenner Born: 17th of May 1749, in Berkeley, Gloucestershire

Work: He was a British biologist. He started to study very young. His early studies were conducted at the local school and from an early age showed great interest in nature.

At 21 she began studying at the San Jorge Hospital in London with the famous surgeon and anatomist John Hunter.

EDWARD JENNER

The Balmis Expedition was a three-year

mission to the Americas with the aim of vaccinating thousands against smallpox. Vaccination, a much safer way to prevent smallpox.

The Balmis expedition set off from La Coruña on 30th November 1803. It may be considered the first international health-care expedition in history.

BALMIS

The name of vaccine comes from cow because

he discovered the smallpox through a young boy that works with cows

WHERE DOES THE NAME “VACCINE” COME FROM

Images:

They transported the vaccine through children

as a way to preserve it.

Things that they used to transport the vaccine by a cold chain: Cold Ice Plastic boxes

TRANSPORTCADENA EN FRED

THE PROCESS

THE VACCINE TROUGH A COW

Jenner decided to test this empirical knowledge and had the

idea of inoculating healthy people with cowpox to confer immunity against the dreaded disease.

On May 14th, 1796 he extracted pus from a pustule on the hand of Sarah Nelmes, a milkmaid who had contracted smallpox from his dairy cow, and inoculated a healthy 8 year old boy named James Phipps.

The young boy developed a mild illness between the 7th and the 9th day. A vesicle formed at the points of inoculation, which disappeared without any complication. On July 1st, he inoculated the boy with the dreaded smallpox, but he didn’t fell sick. THE VACCINE HAD BEEN DISCOVERED.

THE PROCESS

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