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Greetings to all today Stemmianos, continuing with the challenge of influential people I want to talk to you about a wonderful character who is ranked number 4 on my list, it is the illustrious Venezuelan who won the battle to leprosy, the scientist Jacinto Convit.

Jacinto Convit García, was born on September 11, 1913 in Caracas, specifically in the parish of La Pastora. He was a recognized doctor for developing the vaccine against leprosy.
While Jacinto was studying medicine, in certain field trips he accompanied his Dermatology professor, Doctor Martín Vega, to work in a colony they had for the Leprosos located in the Vargas Litoral, in Caracas.
At that time the victims suffering from leprosy had no hope and died. The conditions of the affected patients were deplorable and the symptoms worsened with the days, the only treatments for the time were analgesics to relieve the pains.

Source: https://contactohoy.com.mx/la-lepra-un-mal-que-continua-dasta-nuestros-dias/
How did our Jacinto beat leprosy?
After spending several days attending the people of the colony Jacinto wondered how to do something for them and found the formula.
For that, he inoculated the leprosy bacillus that caused the leprosy into armadillos of the Dasypodidae family and obtained the Mycobacterium leprae, mixing it with the BCG (tuberculosis vaccine), produced the immunization against the disease. Then they developed an experimental vaccine for both treatment and prevention of leprosy, the first results of using this vaccine were very successful in curing leprosy.

Source: http://www.culturizate.com/la-cura-de-la-lepra-jacinto-convit/

A curious fact of Jacinto Convit is that he died at 100 years of age in 2014 and never charge a medical consultation to his patients, worthy of admiration.