Demons of Illness and Poverty Stalking the Lucky Gods, by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1884. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Herbert R. Cole Collection.

Epidemic

Volume XIII, Number 3 | summer 2020

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Signs and Wonders

Francine Prose

The Virus and the Martians

Mike Jay

What Preparations Are Due?

Travis Chi Wing Lau

Map

The Name Blame Game

Miscellany

Preventive dentistry.

Disaster planning.

Early episodes in epidemiology.

The mother of nine diseases.

Lost without transcription.

Starting over.

Long-lasting consequences.

The last victim of a pandemic.

A contagion that stopped an invasion.

Cough at your peril.

One goat kid, one piglet, and one puppy.

Market opportunities.

Stayin’ alive.

Unforeseen side effects.

New frontiers in public health.

Creating jobs for ancient essential workers.

Voices In Time

Do Unto Others

1634 | Plymouth Colony

Anxiety Attacks

1624 | London

Homeland Insecurity

1797 | New York City

Apocalypse Now

2013 | San Francisco

Pro Patria Mori

1918 | Atlantic Ocean

Preventive Care

1815 | Naples

Out, Damned Spot

c. 1100 BC | India

Isolation Wards

1789 | Bedfordshire

Land Grant

1892 | New York City

Supply Chain

1665 | London

Means of Destruction

c. 1844 | Manchester

Contact Tracing

1666 | Blazing World

Super Spreader

1939 | Princeton, NJ

Plague Posts

1665 | London

Statistical Significance

1662 | London

Be Thou Clean

c. 30 | Galilee

Safe at Last

1912 | Wyandotte, OK

Against Contagion

1824 | London

Custom of the Country

c. 1728 | England

Out of Sight

1497 | Tuscany

Fresh Air

c. 27 BC | Rome

Disease Profiling

1869 | London

Cruise-Ship Quarantine

1820 | Naples

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

1520 | Iximche

Duty Free

2094 | Windsor

Last Words

1592 | Croydon

Dirty Dancing

1832 | Paris

Safety First

1911 | Venice

Charts and Graphs

Catchy Tunes

Curious Contagions

Flu Fallout

Weapons of Mass Infection

The Heaviest Hitters

False Positives

Cold Cases

Novel Threats

Stocking Up

Contributors

Conversations

Pennsylvania House of Representatives & James Johnson

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