Emergency hospital during influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas, 1918
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This is super fascinating: But what about the survivors of what remains the single greatest mortality event ever recorded? New research published Wednesday in the journal Nature suggests it was.
I have nothing to offer here except to just say that this is damned interesting. Ancient DNA from bubonic plague victims buried in cemeteries on the old Silk Road trade.
As always, natural disasters are really human-disasters, exacerbating preexisting inequalities that people don't want to talk about. With Covid, and for that matter with other communicable diseases such as tuberculosis, one of the really big examples of this has been the globally awful prison system,...
Well, this is certainly an interesting argument from the historian of medicine Melanie Kiechle. Does the pandemic mean that we need to take 19th century theories of medicine seriously again?.
Lots of gems of self-medication here: It was a similar scene a century ago when Spanish flu ravaged the globe and the panicked masses turned to alcohol – as well.
Nurse Harriet Curley takes the pulse of a Navajo patient waiting in the dispensary of the Sage Memorial Hospital, an ultra-modern institution at the Ganado Mission, Arizona, a Presbyterian enterprise deep in the Navajo Indian reservation, Dec. 14, 1949. (AP Photo) Once again, a long,...
If you read the comments at LGM or anywhere else on the liberal internet, it's all doom and gloom, with commenters one upping each other in assuming the very worst.
COVID-19 is not a creation of globalization, but it's rapid spread around the globe is. And it is just one of many, many diseases that globalization has whipped around the.
The Spanish were able to conquer the Mexica (Aztecs) due to the smallpox wiping out Tenochtitlan between 1519-21. But in the writings that survived the Spanish conquest, there were guides to the emperors on how to respond during a period of sickness. It seems their...
I am not a historian of medicine. But as an environmental historian, I'm familiar enough with this cousin of my field to know the stories they tell well enough. And.
I want to take a minute, step back a bit, and talk about comparative responses to the last two major flu (or flu-like) epidemics in the United States. This came.