Epidemic of infectious disease that has spread across a large region with global health impact

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Drawing of the 1918 Influenza: Lymph sinus, some of the cells shown in their protoplasm - small clean spaces containing two, three or four fine deep brown spherules - shadows of colon bacilli

Drawing of the 1918 Influenza: section of the liver of rabbit

Drawing of the 1918 Influenza: Main bronchus of a set of influenza lungs in the Museum at Guy's Hospital. Showing congestion of vessels and infiltration of round cells, thickening of membrane.

Drawing of the 1918 Influenza

Drawing of the 1918 Influenza: Trachea showing earliest stage of reaction in influenza. Epithelium intact, but basement [?] slightly swollen as [?], with congestion and some small cells influtration of sub[?]. Hyaline deposits over epithelium

Drawing of the 1918 Influenza: section of mescuterie gland

Drawing of the 1918 Influenza: Trachea showing particular retention of epithelium, by, and in the neighbourhood of duet [?] of one of the mucus glands.

Drawing of the 1918 Influenza: Showing congestion of vessels

Quaranzine! : a zine about isolation, connectedness & survival in dark times / edited by Mad Covid.

Being human during COVID-19 / edited by Paul Martin, Stevienna de Saille, Kirsty Liddiard and Warren Pearce.

The Ebola pandemic in Sierra Leone : representations, actors, interventions and the path to recovery / John Idriss Lahai.

The AIDS pandemic : searching for a global response / Michael Merson, Stephen Inrig.

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Pandemics

Images from the collections

Images referencing Pandemics

Works from the collections

Quaranzine! : a zine about isolation, connectedness & survival in dark times / edited by Mad Covid.

Being human during COVID-19 / edited by Paul Martin, Stevienna de Saille, Kirsty Liddiard and Warren Pearce.

The Ebola pandemic in Sierra Leone : representations, actors, interventions and the path to recovery / John Idriss Lahai.

Drawing of the 1918 Influenza: Trachea showing particular retention of epithelium, by, and in the neighbourhood of duet [?] of one of the mucus glands.

The AIDS pandemic : searching for a global response / Michael Merson, Stephen Inrig.

Pandemics

Images from the collections

Images referencing Pandemics

Works from the collections

Quaranzine! : a zine about isolation, connectedness & survival in dark times / edited by Mad Covid.

Being human during COVID-19 / edited by Paul Martin, Stevienna de Saille, Kirsty Liddiard and Warren Pearce.

The Ebola pandemic in Sierra Leone : representations, actors, interventions and the path to recovery / John Idriss Lahai.

Drawing of the 1918 Influenza: Trachea showing particular retention of epithelium, by, and in the neighbourhood of duet [?] of one of the mucus glands.

The AIDS pandemic : searching for a global response / Michael Merson, Stephen Inrig.

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