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The ambivalence of air

Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.

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My mother, and metaphors of a pandemic

A pandemic. Two members of one family, living thousands of miles apart. And months of calls and messages that helped them grow closer.

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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.

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We need less ‘sickle cell warriors’ and more allies

Rejecting the epithet “warrior”, Cheryl Telfer describes the pervasive effect sickle cell disease has on her life, and calls for more people to donate blood to help sicklers.

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  • The tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria); advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • The tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria); advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • The tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria); advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • Australian public health information poster on the tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria), advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish, produced by Brisbane City Council Department of Health after the 1926/1927 dengue epidemic. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • A voyage to the islands, Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved; in large copper-plates as big as the life / By Hans Sloane.
  • A voyage to the islands, Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved; in large copper-plates as big as the life / By Hans Sloane.
  • A parasitic nematode (Filaria immitis) and its vector, the mosquito (Myzomyia superpicta). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • Life-cycle stages of the parasite Babesia canis and its vector, the kennel tick (Rhicephalus sanguineus). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • Hydatidosis (echinococcosis): how it is caught, and what the symptoms look like. Colour lithograph by Peña Plata, ca. 1937.
  • The bandicot tick (Ixodes reduvius), vector of the louping-ill parasite. Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
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