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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WhatsApp aunties and the spread of fake news
The advantages of WhatApp chat groups – especially as a cost-free way of keeping in touch with family around the world – make them fertile ground for the spread of bogus medical advice. Writer Rianna Walcott explores how to encourage ‘aunties’ in the community to question the truth of unattributed health hoaxes.
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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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The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
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Spread the good news... : Flora pro-activ can dramatically reduce cholesterol to help maintain a healthy heart / Unilever Bestfoods.
Date: [2006]
- Books
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Report of the Select Committee on the Spread of Leprosy.
Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Select Committee on the Spread of Leprosy.Date: 1889- Archives and manuscripts
Dr John Seale Articles (2) (Spread Factors and "Cover Up")
Date: 1985-1988Reference: MS.8877/5Part of: Henry Sanford: papers relating to John Seale and controversies over AIDS- Books
Stretching forth thine hand to heal / by R.A. Richard Spread.
Spread, R. A. Richard (Rudolph Alfred Richard)Date: 1936- Archives and manuscripts
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Report on the Optimal Spread of Bombs Aimed at a Marker (Typescript)
Date: 1944Reference: HALDANE/1/5/1/25Part of: Haldane Papers
