Stories
- Book extract
The science of why things spread
From deadly pandemics to viral tweets, Adam Kucharski explores what makes something contagious.
- Article
The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
- Article
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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The cook who became a pariah
New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Press Adverts - Dips and Livestock Remedies
Cooper McDougall & Robertson LtdDate: Mar 1930 - 12 Jan 1943Reference: WF/C/M/GB/A/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co Product Leaflets: Carbochal - Kepler
Date: 1950s-1960sReference: WF/M/GB/40/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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The reciprocal duties of the medical profession and the community : being the inaugural address delivered at the sixty-sixth annual meeting of the British Medical Association / by Sir T. Grainger Stewart.
Date: 1898- Books
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The hygiene of the skin, or, The art of preventing skin diseases / by A. Ravogli.
Date: 1888- Books
Foodborne disease outbreaks : guidelines for investigation and control / World Health Organization.
World Health Organization.Date: [2008], ©2008