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Fake news and the flu

Discover how history shows that fake news could play a deadly role – by generating potentially lethal misinformation during a future pandemic.

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Jim, the horse of death

Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.

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  • carl Weigert, bacteriologist
  • Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory, Muktesar, Punjab, India: the Imperial Bacteriologist's residence. Photograph, 1897.
  • Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory, Muktesar, Punjab, India: the Assistant Bacteriologist's residence, set on a hillside. Photograph, 1897.
  • Spirochetes of fowl spirochetosis at 1000X (above) and 2000X (below) magnification. Coloured process print after R.D. Muir.
  • Bacteriological atlas : a series of coloured plates illustrating the morphological characters of pathogenic micro-organisms / by Richard Muir.
  • Protozoan parasites at 1000X magnification. Coloured process print after R. D. Muir.
  • Bacteriological atlas : a series of coloured plates illustrating the morphological characters of pathogenic micro-organisms / by Richard Muir.
  • Trypanosomes at 1000X magnification. Coloured process print after R. D. Muir.
  • Bacteriological atlas : a series of coloured plates illustrating the morphological characters of pathogenic micro-organisms / by Richard Muir.
  • Bacteriological atlas : a series of coloured plates illustrating the morphological characters of pathogenic micro-organisms / by Richard Muir.
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