EDUARDO FUENZALIDA LOYOLA nació el 18 de octubre 1911 in the estate the Huallas located in a mountain range of Curico. His primary and secondary part of the place in Curico, continuing in Santiago at the Liceo Liceo Barros Arana and Implementation. In 1931 he joined the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Chile. Graduating in 1935 graduated as a veterinarian. He was immediately hired at the Bacteriological Institute of Chile, where he remained until 1966. He was Professor of Infectious Diseases Professor, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Chile and a professor in the School of Infantry of San Bernardo. In 1935 he served as Veterinary Officer in the Army of Chile.
For several years he served as Director of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology at the Bacteriological Institute of Chile. However, his greatest dedication was to investigate the immunoprophylaxis of rabies, studies that they presented in 1954, the 3rd Day of the Chilean Society of Health Bacteriological Institute of Chile, along with Raul Palacios R. surgeon, a method developing new rabies vaccine. Vaccine without question exceeded the original Pasteur vaccine and those in the world at that time, mainly because no accidents occurred following immunization neuroparalytic type and also its high power immune. Quite an achievement for the scientific activity of Chile. 
Considering the success of the vaccine and its long experience, the Pan American Health incorporated it in 1966 as a researcher and consultant of Rabies in the Pan American Zoonoses Center based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1973 he returned to Chile. Don Eduardo died on July 19, 1976 at 64 years of age because of kidney disease. vaccine in suckling mouse brain called "Vaccine Fuenzalida - Palacios" is well known. In 1954 Edward L. Fuenzalida with Raul Palacios R. unveiled this new rabies vaccine that was initially applied only dogs. In 1958 was tested in humans, specifically in 64 volunteers from the Polytechnic of San Bernardo, demonstrating that the vaccine produced, after 21 days of experience, enough antibodies to obtain a good protection against rabies virus, and confirmed that the new mouse brain vaccine infant was 50 to 100 times more efficient than the traditional vaccine. In 1960 the National Health Service of Chile allowed its application in humans. In 1963 it allowed its use in Uruguay, in 1964 in Argentina and Peru, Brazil and Venezuela did in 1965, Cuba and Mexico in 1967, Ecuador and Guatemala in 1969. Eduardo Fuenzalida
received recognition His work in life, and Mexico and Brazil give the highest honors for "Services to the country" and in Colombia the Distinguished Health Service Award from the Ministry of Health. The Pasteur Institute honors him with its Medal of Honor for his important contributions to science and the health of the people.
In your daily life Don Eduardo was a man of advanced, comprehensive, worship, a humanist who developed his skills in watercolor and plastic engraving ink or charcoal. Union activity was President of Chile Veterinary Medical Association and Vice-President of the Society of Veterinary Medicine in Chile.
As veterinary student was considered by his fellow students as a pleasant and cheerful companion, when humor was studied their anatomy making preparations for cueca music storage, thus the fun of the audience hall of anatomy. Students in the 30's was called "Sandino" by its nature always ready to lead the small conflicts that arose between students and teaching assistants. Eulalio Fernández N. in his book "Half a Century of Veterinary Medicine," Chapter XXVI "A rival of Pasteur" says: "To the glory of our distinguished colleague and we can say that consistent with its impetus youth, our student days Sandino promoted the noblest revolutions, accomplished in the field of science, following the light trail to stop the great Pasteur and his humanitarian legacy revived by this humble son of Chile, with their hard work, wisdom and generosity. "Eduardo Fuenzalida was a serious man of medium height and build solid, retaining its rural origin in the province of Curico. Your speech was direct, straightforward and spare, like every man in the field. It was simple in dress and frugal in their food. He liked holidays in their place of Curico feeling the chirping of birds and native trees grow. While living in Buenos Aires next to Palermo Park, the green lung of the capital of Argentina, there were still on their balconies seedlings of pepper, oregano, parsley and garlic in good accounts mitigated the nostalgia for his plot Curicó.
His disciple Chilean Fernando Fabrega T. says: "Those who were privileged to know him, to receive his teachings, to feel his great manhood, those inoculated with talent in our flesh and our spirit, we remember materially figure in the presence of sober monolith, located in a garden of the Institute of Public Health (ex Bacteriological Institute) named in his honor Dr. Eduardo Fuenzalida Loyola, which opened in 1976 as a tribute to the man and his work, and encouragement perennial future generations. "
Eduardo
met in my college days. Since 1957 studying with his son, Luis Eduardo at his home near the National Stadium. I remember criticizing the university and especially the one issued in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Chile. Openly favored the change of government, what actually happened giving way to large academic modifications that reached its peak under the leadership of Dr. Ramón Rodríguez T., another virologist of international experience.
ever was with Don Eduardo on their plot of the Huallas, picking apples and talking late into the night. I remember we were traveling from Santiago in his old car, a dark square pileup, with crank and whiskers, slowly but surely.
When I went to work at the Bacteriological Institute in Mouth Disease Section, he was Director of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology. Do not forget that his colleagues teased him because he always wore an apron not very clean. The answer to the taunts saying a dirty apron was a sign that he was using had worked undeniable. More than anything I owe to Don Eduardo addition to their advice and criticism. With your support I was hired in April 1967 at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Chile to create the laboratory of Virology, where I worked until 1995.
More than 30 years after his death and on behalf of his disciples and friends, give this brief sketch of the old Fuenzalida and his colleagues called him, the student nicknamed Sandino, veterinarian Dr. Fuenzalida paradigmatic Chilean rival Pasteur, to have known him and thank the deep desire that his memory last forever, as an example and stimulus for new generations of veterinarians. Don Eduardo
died on July 19, 1979 suffering from a bilateral nephrosis, according to his son Mr Luis Eduardo possibly caused by the use of thimerosal.
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