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Epidemics

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  • The male and female signs entwined with two arrows at the centre labelled 'SIDA' within a wavy grey border; a leaflet warning about the AIDS epidemic by the Comissão Nacional de Luta Contra a SIDA. Colour lithograph by Publicis Ciesa, ca. 1996.
  • The port of Marseille during the plague in 1720. Coloured etching after M. Serre.
  • The ship carrying the plague arrives in another country. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
  • An allegory of cholera mortality. Etching by A. Burdet after A. Raffet.
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    Two women, surrounded by villagers, with their heads bowed to the ground in Karanja, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.

    Moss, C., Captain, active approximately 1897. | Date: [1897?] | Reference: 37571i
    Part of: The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
    • Books

    The Truman virus / writer: Eliot Witters ; art: Paul D. Houston.

    Witters, Eliot. | Date: [2011], ©2011
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    What's the World Health Organization for? : final report from the Centre on Global Health Security Working Group on Health Governance / Charles Clift.

    Clift, Charles | Date: 2014
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    The chairman of the Bombay Plague Committee interviewing justices of the peace. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.

    Moss, C., Captain, active approximately 1897. | Date: [1897?] | Reference: 1994i
    Part of: The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
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    Account of an epidemic fever, which occurred at Gibraltar, in the years 1804, 1810, and 1813 : taken from official documents, military and medical, and from the communications of Joseph D.A. Gilpin, M.D., deputy inspector of hospitals.

    Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. | Date: 1814
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