Stories
- Book extract
The science of why things spread
From deadly pandemics to viral tweets, Adam Kucharski explores what makes something contagious.
- Article
The stranger who started an epidemic
New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.
- 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.
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What the nose doesn’t know
Losing her sense of smell for over a year motivated Stephanie Howard-Smith to sniff out the history of treatments for this unsettling condition.
Catalogue
- Books
Viral diseases of the fetus and newborn / by James Barry Hanshaw and John Alastair Dudgeon.
Hanshaw, James Barry, 1928-Date: 1978- Books
Viral diseases of the skin, mucous membranes and genitals : clinical features, differential diagnosis and therapy, with basic principles of virology / by Theodor Nasemann ; with the collaboration of Gertrud Schaeg and Otto Schultka ; translated by Peter J. Frosch.
Nasemann, Theodor, 1923-Date: 1977- Books
Viral respiratory diseases : report of a WHO scientific group.
Date: 1980- Books
International nomenclature of diseases : Volume II. Infectious diseases. Part 3: Viral diseases. / a joint project of the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences and the World Health Organization.
Date: 1983- Archives and manuscripts
Kiks: Viral Infections - ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis)
Date: 1994-2002Reference: SA/WHL/14/14Part of: Women's Health Library: archive