Creatividad: Edward Jenner perseverancia y método / El origen de las vacunas

 

The case of the English physician and surgeon Edward Jenner (1749-1823) is one of perseverance and method, but also of an audacity that today would have put him behind bars. Contrary to what is sometimes presented, the idea of vaccinations did not arise as a “eureka” moment. 

In Jenner’s epoch, variolation, or inoculation, was practiced using smallpox scabs or pus in healthy people to protect them from what was then a terrible plague.

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Flaubert & Jenner: Una vacuna "de regalo"

Revive aquí la historia que llevó del primer ensayo de Jenner (hoy inaceptable) a la intensiva campaña mundial de vacunación, que culminó en 1979 con la erradicación de la viruela, la enfermedad infecciosa más mortal de la historia.