A Woman to Know: Isabel Zendal Gómez
I don't imagine the annals of history furnish an example of philanthropy so noble, so extensive as this. — Edward Jenner
I don't imagine the annals of history furnish an example of philanthropy so noble, so extensive as this. — Edward Jenner
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In 1802, as smallpox ravaged the world and rulers debated how to transfer the revolutionary new vaccine, a Spanish scientist proposed an unsettling — but effective — mode of transport: send “living vaccines…
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