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2 days ago · During the cholera outbreak in London, John Snow (1813–1858) marked locations of cholera deaths and wells on a map, which was used to successfully identify that contaminated water sources were the source of cholera transmission, which stopped the spread of the cholera epidemic.
2 days ago · During a cholera epidemic in London in 1854, Snow plotted deaths on a map and proved that the outbreak was caused by contaminated water from a city pump – not by stinky air, as the “ miasma theory ” erroneously held at the time. Louis Pasteur, a French chemist and a pioneer in microbiology and immunology.
1 day ago · Not included in the above table are many waves of deadly diseases brought by Europeans to the Americas and Caribbean. Western Hemisphere populations were ravaged mostly by smallpox, but also typhus, measles, influenza, bubonic plague, cholera, malaria, tuberculosis, mumps, yellow fever, and pertussis.
6 days ago · The following two interactive maps may not show in the emailed version of the post. If not, go to the post on the blog here to fully view the maps. London Museums and Public Galleries. There is a whole section in the London Data Store on the city’s Cultural Infrastructure in 2023, and the first example I have used is Museums and Public Galleries.
1 day ago · One can hardly miss the Nietzsche reference in “The Eternal Cycle of Pandemics,” a Lancet Infectious Diseases article reviewing John Froude’s Plagued: Pandemics From the Black Death to COVID-19 and Beyond (2021). 38 The sequential arc may map onto a single pandemic, but the ewige Wiederkehr (eternal return) of pestilence in global health ...
2 days ago · The first case of cholera was detected in Mayotte on March 18, with Guévenoux saying that the response strategy has been to enable “its rapid detection and treatment”. “All measures are being taken to stop the spread,” she wrote in a post on social media, as health officials in the region said contact tracing was underway.
2 days ago · Newer data indicates London’s economy has underperformed the rest of the country since 2019. That shortfall is despite London experiencing the largest regional increase in real GDP in 2022. In ...
