Stories
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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The stranger who started an epidemic
New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.
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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.
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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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A monkey dressed in preparation against the cholera epidemic. Etching, c. 1832.
Date: 1832Reference: 17853i- Books
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Papers on the subject of the Bengal cyclone and storm-wave of the 31st October - 1st November 1876 ; and the subsequent cholera epidemic.
Cotton, H. J. S.Date: 1877- Books
Notes on the epidemic cholera / By R. Hartley Kennedy.
Kennedy, Richard Hartley, -1865Date: 1846- Books
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Notes on the epidemic cholera / By R. Hartley Kennedy.
Kennedy, Richard Hartley, -1865.Date: 1846- Books
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The vagus treatment of cholera : as exemplified in returns from the cholera hospitals of Malta, during the epidemic of 1887 / by Alexander Harkin.
Harkin, Alexander.Date: 1890