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

Disaster planning.

Market opportunities.

One goat kid, one piglet, and one puppy.

Unforeseen side effects.

Long-lasting consequences.

The mother of nine diseases.

Stayin’ alive.

New frontiers in public health.

The last victim of a pandemic.

A contagion that stopped an invasion.

Early episodes in epidemiology.

Preventive dentistry.

Starting over.

Lost without transcription.

Cough at your peril.

Creating jobs for ancient essential workers.

Voices In Time

Pro Patria Mori

1918 | Atlantic Ocean

Dirty Dancing

1832 | Paris

Land Grant

1892 | New York City

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

1520 | Iximche

Disease Profiling

1869 | London

Out of Sight

1497 | Tuscany

Custom of the Country

c. 1728 | England

Super Spreader

1939 | Princeton, NJ

Out, Damned Spot

c. 1100 BC | India

Statistical Significance

1662 | London

Supply Chain

1665 | London

Apocalypse Now

2013 | San Francisco

Plague Posts

1665 | London

Do Unto Others

1634 | Plymouth Colony

Isolation Wards

1789 | Bedfordshire

Anxiety Attacks

1624 | London

Safety First

1911 | Venice

Contact Tracing

1666 | Blazing World

Last Words

1592 | Croydon

Duty Free

2094 | Windsor

Be Thou Clean

c. 30 | Galilee

Fresh Air

c. 27 BC | Rome

Against Contagion

1824 | London

Safe at Last

1912 | Wyandotte, OK

Means of Destruction

c. 1844 | Manchester

Cruise-Ship Quarantine

1820 | Naples

Preventive Care

1815 | Naples

Homeland Insecurity

1797 | New York City

Charts and Graphs

Stocking Up

Curious Contagions

Flu Fallout

Weapons of Mass Infection

Cold Cases

Novel Threats

False Positives

The Heaviest Hitters

Catchy Tunes

Contributors

Conversations

Pennsylvania House of Representatives & James Johnson

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