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thoughts on historic infectious disease

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Reading Science

  • Demystifying Scientific Authorship

Microbiology

  • Koch’s Postulates
  • Yersinia etymology
  • Carrying Salmonella Home

Public Health

  • What is the Chain of Infection?
  • Chain of Infection for the Plague
  • Cholera’s Chain of Infection
  • Influenza Pandemics: 1510-2010

History

  • Lincoln’s Illness at Gettysburg
  • Federal Mortality Census, 1850-1880
  • Malaria and the Boy Pharaoh

Recommended Websites for Students

  • History of Vaccines
  • DNA from the Beginning
  • DNA interactive
  • Todar’s Online Textbook of Bacteriology
  • Scitable: A Collaborative Learning Center by Nature Publishing group

Recent Posts

  • Molecular Confirmation of Yersinia pestis in 6th century Bavaria
  • Fleshing out Yersinia pestis
  • Visualizing the Plague of Justinian in the Mediterranean
  • The Great Pneumonic Plague of 1910-1911
  • Demystifying Scientific Authorship
  • What have I been thinking about?
  • Reactivation of Ancient Plague Foci in Libya, 2009

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  • Aetiology
  • Anthropology in Practice
  • Archaic Medical Terms
  • Bones Don't Lie
  • Contagion: Historical Views of Disease and Epidemics
  • Dispersal of Darwin History of Science blog and twitter list
  • Epidemiology for the Uninitiated
  • History of Vaccines
  • Infection Landscapes
  • Lab Rat
  • McKinney Collection of Medieval Medical Illustrations
  • MedAnth Wiki
  • Medica blog
  • MolBio Carnival
  • Past Horizons
  • Powered by Osteons
  • Research Blogging
  • Rule of 6ix
  • ScienceSeeker
  • Small Things Considered
  • Superbug
  • The Artful Amoeba
  • Todar's Online Textbook of Bacteriology

Influenza

  • 1918 Influenza Epidemic Encyclopedia

Malaria

  • CDC Malaria
  • Dr Seuss Malaria booklet
  • Malaria Journal

Open Access Journals

  • Emerging Infectious Disease
  • Eurosurveillance
  • List of History of Medicine Journals
  • mBio
  • PLoS One
  • PLoS Pathogens

Plague

  • Black Death at Medievalists.net
  • CDC Plague Preparedness
  • CDC: Plague homepage
  • Decameron Web
  • Plague at CIDRAP
  • The Black Death Network
  • USGS Report: Plague
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