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    Thomas. In Venezuela, the expedition divided at La Guaira. Balmis went to Caracas and later to Havana.[citation needed] At Balmis’ request Cuba sent three...
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    de Balmis was born in Alicante on 2 December 1753 and was baptized three days later at the Basilica of Santa Maria. His parents were Antonio Balmis, a...
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    doctor Francisco Javier Balmis started a vaccination program against smallpox in New Spain, better known as Balmis Expedition, which reduced the severity...
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  • International Court of Justice Francisco Javier de Balmis (1753–1819), physician who headed the Balmis expedition to vaccinate the Spanish-colonies population...
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    02.024. PMID 17387780. S2CID 23106996. Patowary K (2020-12-09). "Balmis Expedition - How Orphans Took The Smallpox Vaccine Around The World". Amusing...
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  • well as the Museo de Historia Natural. The crown also funded the Balmis Expedition in 1804 to vaccinate colonial populations against smallpox. Much of...
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    [citation needed] The Balmis Expedition arrived in Lima on May 23, 1806. This expedition, named for its head, Doctor Francisco Javier de Balmis, was propagating...
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    Zendal, a Spanish nurse notable for participating in the 1803–06 Balmis Expedition which brought smallpox vaccination to South America and Asia. The...
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    Aguilar that the Balmis Expedition (1803–1806) arrived in the Philippines. The expedition, led by Doctor Francisco Javier de Balmis, aimed to vaccinate...
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    Spanish Balmis Expedition (1803–1806), a three-year-long mission to the Americas, the Philippines, Macao, China, led by Francisco Javier de Balmis with the...
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    colleague of Jenner. As early as 1803, the Spanish Crown organized the Balmis expedition to transport the vaccine to the Spanish colonies in the Americas and...
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  • (born 1773) was a Spanish nurse from Galicia who took part in the Balmis Expedition (1803-1806, Real Expedición Filantrópica de la Vacuna), which took...
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    (more than 9 meters including pedestal). The ship María Pita of the Balmis Expedition was named after her in 1803. In August 2008, SASEMAR (Sociedad de...
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    gathering information for the Spanish crown. In 1803, he authorized the Balmis Expedition, aimed at vaccinating Spain's overseas territories against smallpox...
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    transpacific Malaspina-Bustamante Expedition was for scientific purposes. The crown also funded the Balmis Expedition in 1804 to vaccinate colonial populations...
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    disease. As early as 1803, the Spanish Crown organised a mission (the Balmis expedition) to transport the smallpox vaccine to the Spanish colonies, and establish...
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    and subjugated peoples. The Spanish Crown organised a mission (the Balmis expedition) to transport the smallpox vaccine and establish mass vaccination...
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  • years since the introduction of the smallpox vaccine in the country (Balmis Expedition) April 6: 60 years since the Esso Maracaibo tanker accident. April...
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    Dessalines, defeats the French army sent by Napoleon. November 30 The Balmis Expedition starts in Spain, with the aim of vaccinating millions against smallpox...
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  • efforts paralleled Dr. Francisco Xavier Balmis and Dr. Josep Salvany i Lleopart's 19th-century Spanish expedition to deliver smallpox vaccine to the New...
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    the United States. In 1804 the Balmis Expedition, an official Spanish mission commanded by Francisco Javier de Balmis, sailed to spread the vaccine throughout...
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    uncertain supplies from infected cows. In 1804, the Spanish Balmis smallpox vaccination expedition to Spain's colonies Mexico and Philippines used the arm-to-arm...
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    an expedition for the propagation of smallpox vaccine under Dr. Francisco Javier de Balmis also arrived. The viceroy's reception of this expedition was...
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    suspicion of whites. The first international healthcare expedition in history was the Balmis Expedition which had the aim of vaccinating Indigenous peoples...
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    and Sri Lankans against smallpox.: 244  Also in 1803 the Spanish Balmis Expedition launched the first transcontinental effort to vaccinate people against...
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  • professional football player Francisco Javier de Balmis (1753–1819), Spanish physician who headed an 1804 expedition to New Spain to vaccinate the populations...
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    2000 Ang Espedisyong Balmis Balmis Expedition Spanish medical expedition to vaccinate the population against smallpox. Balmis Building, Research Institute...
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    (Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition), directed by Francisco Javier de Balmis, a Spanish physician who led the expedition to Spanish America to vaccinate...
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    scientist in Peru at this time was Charles Marie de La Condamine. The Balmis Expedition arrived in Lima on May 23, 1806. At the same time these viceroys adopted...
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    of Surgery") in Madrid. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Balmis Expedition (1803) to administer the smallpox vaccine throughout the Spanish colonies...
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