Manuela Saenz, Emil Von Behring, diphtheria, and other heroes

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José Luis Díaz Ortega

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Using an epidemiological model, we reconstruct the diphtheria epidemic of 1856 in the port of Paitia, Peru, in which Manuela Saenz, a distinguished heroine of Latin American independence, lost her life to the disease.

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Díaz Ortega, J. L. (2011). Manuela Saenz, Emil Von Behring, diphtheria, and other heroes. Ciencias, 99(099). Retrieved from https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/cns/article/view/22894