Stories
- Article
The stranger who started an epidemic
New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.
- Article
Drops of water
In the compulsory isolation of lockdown, Daisy Lafarge’s repeated visits – via a new microscope – to the miniature worlds contained by drops of pond water provided her with the company and escapism she craved.
- In pictures
How an animation educated the army
In a 1940s cartoon intended to persuade US troops to take malaria medication, the makers pitted a clodhopping soldier against a wily mosquito. If only Private SNAFU had followed the government’s advice.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Mosquitoes; Leucocytozoon; Haemogregarines
Date: c.1905Reference: MS.8851Part of: Sambon, Louis Westenra (1865-1931) Italian tropical medicine specialist and medical historian- Videos
- Online
Mosquitoes and malaria.
Date: 1988- Videos
Mosquitoes and malaria.
Date: 1988- Books
Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian region.
Date: 1952- Books
Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian region.
Date: 1936-1941