Stories
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The science of why things spread
From deadly pandemics to viral tweets, Adam Kucharski explores what makes something contagious.
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The cook who became a pariah
New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.
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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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Why pandemic denial is nothing new
Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.
Catalogue
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Letters to "The Times" on small-pox encampments: and a word on the Contagious Diseases Acts / by Surgeon-Major T. Atchison.
Date: 1871- Books
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The laws of epidemic and contagious diseases, and the importance of preventive medicine : an introductory address to the Epidemiological Society, delivered at the commencement of the fourth session, November 7, 1853 / by James Bird.
Bird, James, 1797-1864.Date: 1854- Books
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The reciprocal duties of the medical profession and the community : being the inaugural address delivered at the sixty-sixth annual meeting of the British Medical Association / by Sir T. Grainger Stewart.
Date: 1898- Books
Die morgenländische Brechruhr - Cholera morbus - die seit längerer Zeit viele Menschen.
Wurda, Franz.Date: [1831]- Books
Instruktion über das Verhalten der Seelsorger in dem Falle, wenn die Cholera morbus in einem Orte eintreten sollte.
Wurda, Franz.Date: [1831]