Ebola’s Chain of Infection
A chain of infection is a method for organizing the basic information needed to respond to an epidemic. I’ve gathered the best information I’ve been able to find. As the current epidemic is analyzed,...
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The summer is officially over this week so its time for my quarterly reading update. I read a more eclectic mix of topics this summer than usual. These are just those that really stood out as being...
View ArticleHuman Parasites of the Roman Empire
Last week photos of Roman toilets were splashed across the web breaking the news that the Romans were not a healthy as most people seem to have assumed. As with many public health interventions, the...
View ArticleRoundtable on Campbell’s Climate, Disease, and Society in the Late Medieval...
by Michelle Ziegler Bruce Campbell. The Great Transition: Climate, Disease, and Society in the Late Medieval World. Cambridge University Press, 2016. When I first learned that Bruce Campbell was...
View ArticleCFP: Contagions sessions at the International Congress for Medieval Studies 2018
by Michelle Ziegler Contagions: The Society for Historic Infectious Disease Studies has been given the opportunity of organizing three sessions at next year's International Congress for Medieval...
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