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The science of why things spread

From deadly pandemics to viral tweets, Adam Kucharski explores what makes something contagious.

  • Article

On contagion

Reading descriptions of the way humans become infested by parasitic flatworms, Daisy Lafarge experienced painful physical symptoms. Perhaps the very creature she was studying had invaded her body.

  • Article

Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability

By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.

  • Interview

How to design an HIV awareness campaign

Using carefully crafted, colourful graphics is one public health team’s creative approach.

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  • Notice for annual medical conference in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph by the Ethiopian Medical Association, 2003.
  • List of ways HIV is transmitted; eighth of sixteen advertisement posters by the American Red Cross promoting education about AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • A couple making love, two people sharing needles, a man in a bed receiving a blood transfusion and a pregnant Indian woman; warning by the World Health Organization about the modes of transmission of HIV. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A warning about the hazardous and the non-hazardous practices in relation to the transmission of AIDS issued by the Bundesministerium für Jugend, Familie, Frauen und Gesundheit [Federal Ministry for Youth, Family, Women and Health]. Colour lithograph.
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