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Why we still need quarantine

For years, quarantine has been an important measure to curb the spread of infection and avert further deaths. Discover the way it has been used in the past and why it is still necessary today.

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We are the survivors of slow-motion epidemics

Pioneering epidemiologist Dr Alice Stewart realised how things in our daily lives could be as deadly as any infectious disease.

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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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AIDS awareness posters from the 1980s onwards

The AIDS public health poster campaign chose print even in the internet age and dealt with issues of identity and behaviour like never before.

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  • Hanley, Stoke & Fenton Joint Infectious Diseases Hospital, Staffordshire: floor plan. Photoprint, 1902.
  • Newly emerging infectious diseases: patients in hospital. Relief print by Eric Avery, 2000.
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: doctors in the Heubner section for infectious diseases. Photograph, 1921.
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: nurses in the Heubner section for infectious diseases. Photograph, 1921.
  • Mauritius: a wooden, triangular isolation hut for plague (and other infectious diseases) quarantine. Photograph, 1910/1930.
  • People using Anios disinfectant to destroy microbes representing infectious diseases. Colour lithograph by G. de Trye-Maison, ca. 1910.
  • People stand under a freestanding green umbrella which protects them from the rain; representing the protection conferred by the Infectious Diseases Prevention and Cure Law (Revised) in China in 2004. Colour lithograph, 2004.
  • Seamen's Hospital for infectious diseases in Jurujuba, Rio de Janeiro; a view of the hospital building and surrounding countryside. Photograph, 1904/1911.
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: a nurse demonstrating surgical instruments to other nurses in the Heubner section for infectious diseases. Photograph, 1921.
  • Seamen's Hospital for infectious diseases in Jurujuba, Rio de Janeiro; the landing and observation point for a small isolation hut. Photograph, 1904/1911.
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