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The male and female signs entwined with two arrows at the centre labelled 'SIDA' within a wavy grey border; a leaflet warning about the AIDS epidemic by the Comissão Nacional de Luta Contra a SIDA. Colour lithograph by Publicis Ciesa, ca. 1996.

The port of Marseille during the plague in 1720. Coloured etching after M. Serre.

The ship carrying the plague arrives in another country. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.

The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.

An allegory of cholera mortality. Etching by A. Burdet after A. Raffet.

A T-cell infected with HIV within a poster by the New Scientist describing the science of AIDS. Colour lithograph.

Groups of men on a street spraying jets of water into plague infected houses, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.

Plague in Phrygia. Engraving by F. Aquila after Raphael after Virgil.

Two women, surrounded by villagers, with their heads bowed to the ground in Karanja, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.

The Truman virus / writer: Eliot Witters ; art: Paul D. Houston.

The chairman of the Bombay Plague Committee interviewing justices of the peace. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.

Account of an epidemic fever, which occurred at Gibraltar, in the years 1804, 1810, and 1813 : taken from official documents, military and medical, and from the communications of Joseph D.A. Gilpin, M.D., deputy inspector of hospitals.

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Two women, surrounded by villagers, with their heads bowed to the ground in Karanja, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.

The Truman virus / writer: Eliot Witters ; art: Paul D. Houston.

The chairman of the Bombay Plague Committee interviewing justices of the peace. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.

Account of an epidemic fever, which occurred at Gibraltar, in the years 1804, 1810, and 1813 : taken from official documents, military and medical, and from the communications of Joseph D.A. Gilpin, M.D., deputy inspector of hospitals.

The port of Marseille during the plague in 1720. Coloured etching after M. Serre.