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Open Collections Program: Contagion - Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics - 0 views

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David Hilton on 19 Aug 09

Has some excellent primary sources on major outbreaks of the modern period in Europe and North America.

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David Hilton on 19 Aug 09

This online collection offers important historical perspectives on the science and public policy of epidemiology today and contributes to the understanding of the global, social-history, and public-policy implications of diseases.

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Deven Black on 30 Jul 09

North Brother Island, in NYC's East River, was the home of the hospital housing patients with tuberculosis and other highly contagious diseases where, in 1904, the double paddle-wheel cruise ship General Slocum ran aground while on fire, killing hiundreds, many of them children. This was the most fatal fire in NYC until the collapse of the World Trade Center in 2001.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">North Brother Island, in NYC's East River, was the home of the hospital housing patients with tuberculosis and other highly contagious diseases where, in 1904, the double paddle-wheel cruise ship General Slocum ran aground while on fire, killing hiundreds, many of them children. This was the most fatal fire in NYC until the collapse of the World Trade Center in 2001.</div>

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Khanate of the Golden Horde - 3 views

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shared by Aaron Shaw on 29 Aug 10 - Cached

It is even thought that bubonic plague spread to Europe after the Mongols laid siege to the port of Kaffa on the Crimean peninsula in 1346. After their own forces were stricken with plague, the Mongols catapulted their corpses over the walls into Kaffa. The ships that left Kaffa and returned to Italy carried the disease. 
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Aaron Shaw on 29 Aug 10

The Golden Horde is best known as that part of the Mongol Empire established in Russia. Originally, however, it consisted of the lands Genghis Khan (1165-1227) bequeathed to his son Jochi (1184-1225): the territories west of the Irtysh River (modern Kazakhstan) and Khwarazm (consisting of parts of modern Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The Golden Horde is best known as that part of the Mongol Empire established in Russia. Originally, however, it consisted of the lands Genghis Khan (1165-1227) bequeathed to his son Jochi (1184-1225): the territories west of the Irtysh River (modern Kazakhstan) and Khwarazm (consisting of parts of modern Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan)</div>

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Archives alive - Cholera - Introduction - 5 views

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Pox Americana - 5 views

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Map show the course of the great smallpox epidemic of 1775-1782.

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Some Interesting Health Facts You Must Know. - 0 views

1. When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, and they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate. 2. The human head is one-quarter of our total length at birth but on...

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Spanish Flu: a warning from history | University of Cambridge - 2 views

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shared by Eric Beckman on 14 Mar 19 - No Cached

Eric Beckman on 14 Mar 19

11 minute video on the 1918-1919 flu pandemic

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