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

A contagion that stopped an invasion.

The last victim of a pandemic.

New frontiers in public health.

Lost without transcription.

Preventive dentistry.

Cough at your peril.

Stayin’ alive.

Unforeseen side effects.

Early episodes in epidemiology.

Long-lasting consequences.

Creating jobs for ancient essential workers.

The mother of nine diseases.

Market opportunities.

One goat kid, one piglet, and one puppy.

Disaster planning.

Starting over.

Voices In Time

Fresh Air

c. 27 BC | Rome

Homeland Insecurity

1797 | New York City

Contact Tracing

1666 | Blazing World

Supply Chain

1665 | London

Means of Destruction

c. 1844 | Manchester

Out, Damned Spot

c. 1100 BC | India

Land Grant

1892 | New York City

Pro Patria Mori

1918 | Atlantic Ocean

Out of Sight

1497 | Tuscany

Safety First

1911 | Venice

Do Unto Others

1634 | Plymouth Colony

Cruise-Ship Quarantine

1820 | Naples

Safe at Last

1912 | Wyandotte, OK

Be Thou Clean

c. 30 | Galilee

Apocalypse Now

2013 | San Francisco

Plague Posts

1665 | London

Against Contagion

1824 | London

Disease Profiling

1869 | London

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

1520 | Iximche

Last Words

1592 | Croydon

Isolation Wards

1789 | Bedfordshire

Statistical Significance

1662 | London

Dirty Dancing

1832 | Paris

Duty Free

2094 | Windsor

Super Spreader

1939 | Princeton, NJ

Anxiety Attacks

1624 | London

Preventive Care

1815 | Naples

Custom of the Country

c. 1728 | England

Charts and Graphs

The Heaviest Hitters

Novel Threats

Stocking Up

Cold Cases

Flu Fallout

Weapons of Mass Infection

Curious Contagions

False Positives

Catchy Tunes

Contributors

Conversations

Pennsylvania House of Representatives & James Johnson

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