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‘Small bite, big threat’
World Health Day 2014 (7 April) is about raising awareness of vector borne diseases – diseases carried by mosquitos, flies, ticks and bugs. In the 1980s the Wellcome Trust Film Unit produced a series of films about the history of… Continue reading
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An anti-social habit and the ‘War on Tuberculosis’
Tuberculosis has been called the social disease. It has lived with mankind for thousands of years, and our view of the disease has changed with time and social context. On World Tuberculosis Day (24 March), here’s an example of how… Continue reading
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World AIDS Day talk: global visions in poster art
World AIDS Day (1 December) is a good opportunity to revisit the much used and, it seems, well known, collection of AIDS posters in the Wellcome Library, which is now freely available online (search the Library catalogues for access): The collection,… Continue reading
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Fighting the cold war: David Tyrrell and the common cold
Free 10 Day Autumn or Winter Break: You may not win a Nobel Prize, but you could help find a cure for the common cold In 1946, the Common Cold Unit (CCU) opened its doors to volunteers for a ten-day,… Continue reading
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Bonté Elgood: pioneering woman doctor in Egypt
Papers held in the Wellcome Library relating to the life and medical career of Bonté Elgood (née Amos) (1870-1960) have now been catalogued and are available for research. They can be ordered online through the Wellcome Library’s catalogue (ref PP/ELG).… Continue reading
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This is a public service announcement…
…and some benefit will be gained by reading on… trust me. Yesterday I attended a programme of public health information films The Cinema of Disease held at the Open City Docs Fest, which is taking place in and around UCL… Continue reading
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Combating the tsetse fly: rare historical reports now available
Brian Hursey was an international expert on the control of tsetse flies, the vector of African trypanosomiasis or “sleeping sickness” in man and animals. As a student, he specialised in the study of tsetse flies and, upon graduation in… Continue reading
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An outbreak of Mad Cow Disease in the archives
The Wellcome Trust ’s mission is to foster human and animal health. Sometimes these two areas converge. The BSE crisis of the late 1990s was one such occurrence. Sir John Pattison, former vice-provost of University College London School of Health,… Continue reading
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The Forgotten Fallen
My Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Members of the Council, I have the honour to submit my Report on the health of the City of Manchester for the year 1918. The chief fact of the year, so far as the death-rate… Continue reading