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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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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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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability

By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.

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Jim, the horse of death

Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.

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  • Schedula monitoria de novae febris ingressu / per Tho. Sydenham ... ; accedunt ejusdem De febre putrida variolis confluentibus superveniente, et De mictu sanguineo à calculo renibus impacto dissertationes.
  • Schedula monitoria de novae febris ingressu / per Tho. Sydenham ... ; accedunt ejusdem De febre putrida variolis confluentibus superveniente, et De mictu sanguineo à calculo renibus impacto dissertationes.
  • Thomae Sydenham ... Opera universa : in quibus non solummodò morborum acutorum historiae & curationes novâ & exquisitâ methodo diligentissimè traduntur, verùm etiam morborum ferè omnium chronicorum curatio brevissima, pariter ac fidelissima in publici commodum exhibetur / [Thomas Sydenham].
  • Is HIV still an issue in the UK? : HIV: let's get talking : find out the facts about HIV so you can get talking at www.nat.org.uk / NAT.
  • Is HIV still an issue in the UK? : HIV: let's get talking : find out the facts about HIV so you can get talking at www.nat.org.uk / NAT.
  • Tell me about HIV, I don't know anyone with HIV... do I? Could I get HIV? : HIV: let's get talking : find out the facts about HIV so you can get talking at www.nat.org.uk / NAT.
  • 1 in 7 gay men on the London gay scene has HIV : You won't always be told. You won't know by looking. And he may not know himself / Terrence Higgins Trust, GMFA.
  • Tell me about HIV, I don't know anyone with HIV... do I? Could I get HIV? : HIV: let's get talking : find out the facts about HIV so you can get talking at www.nat.org.uk / NAT.
  • Tell me about HIV, I don't know anyone with HIV... do I? Could I get HIV? : HIV: let's get talking : find out the facts about HIV so you can get talking at www.nat.org.uk / NAT.
  • 1 in 7 gay men on the London gay scene has HIV : You won't always be told. You won't know by looking. And he may not know himself / Terrence Higgins Trust, GMFA.
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