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COVID-19 Test
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Abracadabra triangle The first known mention of the word "abracadabra: was in the second century AD in a book called Liber Medicinalis (sometimes known as De Medicina Praecepta Saluberrima) by the ancient Roman physician Serenus Sammonicus, who prescribed that malaria sufferers wear an amulet containing the word written in the form of a triangle.
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Vaccine
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COVID-19
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The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles.
From pneumonic plague in LA and ‘parrot fever’ in Argentina to the more recent AIDS, SARS and Ebola epidemics, the last 100 years have been marked by a succession of unanticipated outbreaks and scares. Like man-eating sharks, predatory pathogens are always present in nature, waiting to strike; when one is seemingly vanquished, others appear in its place. The Pandemic Century exposes the limits of science against nature, and how these crises are shaped by humans as much as microbes.
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Pope Francis Pope Francis in St Peter's Square - Vatican
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Anthony Fauci Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID Director
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Max Theiler Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive
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To prevent influenza! Black and white poster. Visual image is a photograph of a Red Cross nurse with a gauze mask over her nose and mouth. Text next to the image provides tips to prevent influenza. Title above text. Publisher information at top of poster.
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[Black Death] Street scene showing many people attending to plague victims.