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Oswaldo Cruz
Leading campaigns against yellow fever, plague and smallpox in Brazil.
Yellow fever campaign · Plague control
- Born
- 5 August 1872
- Birthplace
- São Luís do Paraitinga, Brazil
- Died
- 11 February 1917
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Oswaldo Cruz
Oswaldo Cruz was a Brazilian physician whose public-health work helped establish experimental medicine in the country.
Early life
Medical education
Studied medicine in Rio de Janeiro.
Paris training
Trained in bacteriology at the Pasteur Institute.
Career
- 1900
Serum production
Joined the institute at Manguinhos.
- 1903
Public-health leadership
Became director-general of public health.
- 1900s–1910s
Research institution
Developed Manguinhos into a major scientific centre.
Public-health work
Yellow fever campaign
Targeted mosquitoes that transmitted the disease.
Plague control
Organised sanitation and rat-control measures.
Smallpox vaccination
Promoted compulsory vaccination, provoking fierce public resistance.
Beyond work
Vaccine Revolt
The campaign took place amid coercive policing, urban upheaval and public distrust.
Scientific legacy
The research institution bearing his name became Fiocruz.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Fiocruz: life and death ↗Photo: See source. Public domain · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
