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  • Aedes aegypti mosquito crop
  • A Culicidae mosquito (Aedes aegypti). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • A blue cross containing stylised representations of situations in which the Aedes aegypti mosquito can flourish: discarded rubbish, a bin, water, a house etc. , and a representation of the mosquito itself. Colour lithograph, ca. 1982.
  • Yellow fever in Cuba: (above) the Aedes-aegypti mosquito, the carrier of yellow fever, seen as a target through a telescopic gun-sight; (below) a discarded tyre, oil drum etc. as places where the mosquito breeds. Colour screen print (?) after S. Goire Castilla, 198- (?).
  • Transgenic mosquito expresing GFP in its eyes
  • Zika virus, illustration
  • Aesculapius holding a staff encircled by a snake. Drawing by G.B. Cipriani.
  • Three healthcare workers at risk of contracting Pandemic Influenza A H1N1 in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.
  • Illustrated ways to prevent bird flu in Kenya. Colour lithograph by The National Taskforce on Avian Influenza, ca. 2000.
  • Zacharias (father of John the Baptist), struck dumb, writes that his son should be known as John. Etching by C. Tinti, 1771, after A. del Sarto.
  • Saint Valentine baptising Saint Lucilla. Engraving by F. Ricci after J. Bassano.
  • The Blessed Niccolò Albergati. Line engraving by G.A. Faldoni.
  • Socrates. Line engraving by D. Cunego, 1783, after A. R. Mengs after Raphael.
  • The martyrdom of Saint Ursula. Engraving by J. Sadeler after P. de Witte [P. Candid].
  • The annunciation with figures from the Old Testament. Etching by C. Cort after F. Zuccari, 1571.
  • The dance of death: the pedlar. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the younger.
  • Saint Mary Magdalen. Engraving by L. Kilian after H. von Aachen.
  • A background of multi-coloured jelly babies with the words 'Staying alive', advertising a benefit-gala in Berlin in aid of the Lighthouse AIDS hospice. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • Hieronymus Fracastorius (Girolamo Fracastoro) shows the shepherd Syphilus and the hunter Ilceus a statue of Venus to warn them against the danger of infection with syphilis. Engraving by Jan Sadeler I, 1588/1595, after Christoph Schwartz.