Stories
- Book extract
The science of why things spread
From deadly pandemics to viral tweets, Adam Kucharski explores what makes something contagious.
- In pictures
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.
- Article
Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
- Article
The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
![Liber primus et tertius de morbis epidemiis, id est vulgaribus / cum commentariis Galeni, Hermanno Cruserio interprete. [Item] Hippocratis sexti epidemiorum libri ... Leonardo Fuchsio interprete.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0043914/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Liber primus et tertius de morbis epidemiis, id est vulgaribus / cum commentariis Galeni, Hermanno Cruserio interprete. [Item] Hippocratis sexti epidemiorum libri ... Leonardo Fuchsio interprete.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0043913/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Liber primus et tertius de morbis epidemiis, id est vulgaribus / cum commentariis Galeni, Hermanno Cruserio interprete. [Item] Hippocratis sexti epidemiorum libri ... Leonardo Fuchsio interprete.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0043916/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Liber primus et tertius de morbis epidemiis, id est vulgaribus / cum commentariis Galeni, Hermanno Cruserio interprete. [Item] Hippocratis sexti epidemiorum libri ... Leonardo Fuchsio interprete.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0043918/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Liber primus et tertius de morbis epidemiis, id est vulgaribus / cum commentariis Galeni, Hermanno Cruserio interprete. [Item] Hippocratis sexti epidemiorum libri ... Leonardo Fuchsio interprete.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0043922/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Liber primus et tertius de morbis epidemiis, id est vulgaribus / cum commentariis Galeni, Hermanno Cruserio interprete. [Item] Hippocratis sexti epidemiorum libri ... Leonardo Fuchsio interprete.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0043921/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Liber primus et tertius de morbis epidemiis, id est vulgaribus / cum commentariis Galeni, Hermanno Cruserio interprete. [Item] Hippocratis sexti epidemiorum libri ... Leonardo Fuchsio interprete.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0043923/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Liber primus et tertius de morbis epidemiis, id est vulgaribus / cum commentariis Galeni, Hermanno Cruserio interprete. [Item] Hippocratis sexti epidemiorum libri ... Leonardo Fuchsio interprete.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0043915/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Liber primus et tertius de morbis epidemiis, id est vulgaribus / cum commentariis Galeni, Hermanno Cruserio interprete. [Item] Hippocratis sexti epidemiorum libri ... Leonardo Fuchsio interprete.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0043919/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Foot and Mouth Disease Related Documents
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1968-2002Reference: GC/253/A/18/6Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Books
Foodborne disease outbreaks : guidelines for investigation and control / World Health Organization.
World Health Organization.Date: [2008], ©2008- Books
Containing contagion : the politics of disease outbreaks in Southeast Asia / Sara E. Davies.
Davies, Sara E.Date: 2019- Books
Psychological first aid : during Ebola virus disease outbreaks / developed by Carmen Valle.
Subercaseaux de Valdés, BlancaDate: [2014]- Books
- Online
On SARS type economic effects during infectious disease outbreaks / Milan Brahmbhatt, Arindam Dutta.
Brahmbhatt, MilanDate: 2008
