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Isabel Zendal Gómez (born 1773) was a Spanish nurse from Galicia (Spain), Galicia who took part in the Balmis Expedition (1803-1806, ''Real Expedición Filantrópica de la Vacuna''), which took smallpox vaccine, vaccination to South America and Asia. She had previously been the supervisor or "rectoress" of an orphanage in A Coruña, and her role on the expedition was to take care of the group of 22, later 26, small orphan boys who carried the cowpox virus from which the vaccine was prepared. The three-year expedition aimed to vaccinate millions of people against smallpox, and had the support of king Charles IV of Spain whose daughter had died of the disease. Name Her name has been spelled in some 300 different ways, including ''Isabel Sendales y Gómez, Isabel López Gandalia, Ysabel Gómez Sandalla and Isabel Cendala y Gómez. A street in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain was initially named ''Calle Isabel Lopez Gandalia'' in her honour. This name was changed in 2017 to ''Calle Isabel ...
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