Evidence suggests that involving marginalised communities in setting priorities and designing collective action can lead to improved health outcomes.
Normalizing the use of masks by vulnerable people during flu season could save many lives, even after the threat of COVID-19 has receded.
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After two years of COVID-19, it’s understandable that many people are weary of infection prevention measures. But simply being tired of the pandemic is no reason to let our guard down.
A growing interest in fermented foods may direct people to a Bengali fermented rice dish.
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Nigeria needs a multisectoral approach to break its annual cholera epidemic.
Men cross the front of the still smoking lava rocks from an eruption of the Mount Nyiragongo on May 23, 2021 in Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The iconography of the Pestsäule in Vienna indicates that the plague the city suffered was viewed as punishment for sin.
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Although memorials to past pandemics are not as prolific as war memorials, they do exist. A scholar of visual culture provides a brief history of monuments around the world.
Makoko neighbourhood in Lagos, initially founded as a fishing village.
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Pandemic histories are useful for understanding COVID-19, but how they connect with race, public health, revolution, labour and colonialism are needed to explain the present and predict the future.
Cholera would often turn its victims’ skin a bluish grey.
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There is a sad precedent of pandemic disease threatening the residents of care institutions – and of authorities not heeding the dangers.
New York City has closed some streets to traffic to give residents more room to roam during the coronavirus pandemic, Queens, May 13, 2020.
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For centuries, disease outbreaks have forced cities to transform physically and operationally in ways that ultimately benefited all residents going forward.
While identifying a new disease by its place of origin seems intuitive, history shows that doing so can have serious consequences for the people that live there.