#Plague

Amit Paranjape

aparanjape

While we are amidst this global Covid-19 pandemic, important to remember the great Sir Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine. Yesterday was his 90th death anniversary.Haffkine was a bacteriologist from Ukraine (then

Monica H Green

monicaMedHist

Okay, since @KevinMKruse now seems to have given his imprimatur to this piece in the @washingtonpost today about #nCoV2019 & past plagues, it seems time for a mini-thread about #medhist

jake

huntychan

do u think people were protesting to go outside during the black plague this wasn't mean to be some hot political take or a statement i was just bored and

March For Science 🍑

MarchForScience

1. Long lines are evidence of voter suppression, not cause for celebration.2. Voter suppression looks like human error. It’s a feature of the system, not a bug. (@staceyabrams) 3. ...And

Akira/Sam

Heroclueless

I thought these books in the this thread need a second birth, where its revival seems more important than anytime else. I hope people can learn from this literature. Please

August 🍎 💣

aquamonstra

Y'all ever stop and think about how the actual first plague doctor masks weren't actually DESIGNED to look like a bird face, they just were engineered for "efficacy" in such

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

It took President Ronald Reagan seven years to say the word AIDS, because the disease took its early toll on the fags, whores and junkies. 1/ But let's be clear:

Tim Hogan

TimInHonolulu

1. Reopening schools in the middle of a raging pandemic may destroy the US economy resulting in widespread civil strife. Putin knows that and that's why @POTUS Trump is demanding

Wellcome Collection

ExploreWellcome

Through its long history, London has survived some enormous epidemics. During the 1665 Great Plague of London, the city burned, shops closed and the streets emptied. Read Samuel Pepys’s account

jaaazzzzzz :3

pupykook

MY ISLAND IS LIKE A FUCKING PLAGUE EVEEYONE IS WEARING TBE KARAMATSU TSHIRTS AND AAYING JUNGKOOK AS CATCHPHRASES ri coming over tonight and myhouse is a mess id reallt rather

Wrath Of Gnon

wrathofgnon

The Italian city that beat the plague: Ferrara. Not a single plague death since 1576. How did they do it, and what lessons can we learn today? (TLDR the thread:

FRANCE 24 English

France24_en

Since ancient times, diseases have cropped up, decimating populations in a matter of months or even days.Each day this week, @FRANCE24_en looks at a different great #pandemic in history. We

Mark Joseph Stern

mjs_DC

A million people have said this already but it remains startling to see American society laud "essential" working class people as "heroes" when, before all these, we treated them like

Mrs S

MRSS11224611

"“How are we to live in an age of pandemics?” I am tempted to reply: “Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London

#SaveSheikhJarrah

tashakaminsky

a lot of you don't know what happened to the economy after the plague took out a third of europe and it shows. first of all revolts and revolutions were

Michael Govern Ready

mikegove12

Extracts from the plague diary of Mark ne-Francois-PepysJuly 25th 1665Up and this morning was brought home my new Burberry cloake that is lined with velvet and a good cloth Lewis