The Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition, Part 1

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Once Edward Jenner developed the smallpox vaccine, it spread from England, where he lived, to other parts of the world. Meanwhile, events were unfolding that led the Spanish Empire to launch a huge expedition to take the vaccine to its colonies.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class,
0:34.5	a production of I Heart Radio.
0:36.5	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
0:44.4	I'm Tracy V Wilson, and I'm Holly Frye.
0:47.5	Way back in 2013, we did an episode on Edward Jenner and the Smallpox vaccine.
0:54.1	I think that's also been a Saturday classic more recently.
0:57.7	In that episode, we mentioned Jenner's efforts to send the vaccine to anybody who needed it,
1:04.0	but we really didn't get into any kind of detail about what it actually took
1:10.0	to distribute the Smallpox vaccine around the world.
1:13.4	We did briefly mention the voyage of Francisco Javier de Balmous,
1:17.3	who carried the Smallpox vaccine from Spain to the Americas
1:21.5	using a chain of young boys who acted as living vaccine hosts.
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