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Epidemics

Discovery, Interrupted

How World War I delayed a treatment for diabetes and derailed one man’s chance at immortality

The Problem of Influenza

Influenza does not rate with the public as a terrifying disease. One might start a panic any time by shouting “smallpox!” or “yellow fever!” in a crowd, but can you…

The cold we caused

by Steven Stoll,

The fatal mistakes of AIDS education

by Walt Odets,

Freedom and pestilence

by Albert Camus,

The Influenza Epidemic

by David D. Rutstein,

How deadly will it be? What is causing it? What can we do about it?

Infantile paralysis

by George Draper,

War, best friend of disease

by Homer Folks,

New use for a quarantine sign

by Harper’s Staff,

The legend of Frey Bernardo

by Richard Henry Stoddard,

Editor’s drawer

by O.M. B.,