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Archdruid Eileen
ArchdruidEileen
Was thinkiing about John Snow and his discovery that the spread of cholera was associated with drinking water - and specifically the pump in Broad St, Soho. The water board
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Judith Flanders
JudithFlanders
Just so we are all clear that nothing changes. This, on the 1832 cholera epidemic. And, still in plus ça change mode, the government wanted you to be damn sure
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Philip Alston
PhilipGAlston
In April, I joined UN experts in calling on Secretary General @antonioguterres to take action to address the UN's failure to provide justice to #cholera victims in #Haiti. The SG's
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Tweeting Historians
Tweetistorian
Good evening! I'm your host for the week, @khowaga, and I'm about to ruin your dinner! (1/18)#tweetistorian #histmed #twitterstorian #epitwitter You see, I've mentioned #cholera a few times, but I
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Kham Kidia MD 🇿🇼 🏳️🌈
kkidia
THREAD1/As a @harvardmed doctor, I will be one of the first people to get a vaccine. My family in Zimbabwe, however, will be some of the last, if they get
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Uriah
crimkadid
In September 23andMe produced a study showing that subjects belonging to blood group O (the most common type in Europe) have a slightly reduced chance of developing covid:https://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/blood-type-and-covid-19/ Th
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CrimethInc.
crimethinc
Errico Malatesta was born on this day in 1853. Mentored by Mikhail Bakunin, he played a pivotal role in the anarchist movement from 1872 until his death in 1932.In this
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Tweeting Historians
Tweetistorian
To recap: Swenson argued that phase one of an outbreak is denial. #histmed #twitterstorians #Twittistorians (1/21)https://twitter.com/Tweetistorian/status/1338568554929672194?s=20 Phase 2 is BLAME. Someone or something (else) must be blamed
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Chinmay Tumbe
ChinmayTumbe
I was looking for pandemic references in literary works on India throughout the year. Enjoyed reading these six books in 2020. 1/9 J G Farrell's Booker Prize winning "The Siege
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Javier (mascarilla😷 ventilación 💨 manos 🧴) 🚫🦠
nikomer75
1/ From John Snow (1854 Cholera outbreak) to his Memorandum (Sars-CoV-2 Pandemic 2020)From the origin of waterborn diseases to Airborne diseases 2/ In August 1854, Soho in London was
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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne
jmcrookston
Remember, John Snow was an armchair epidemiologist. https://www.practicalplaybook.org/success/story/map-making-and-myth-making-john-snows-map-didn%E2%80%99t-solve-1854-cholera-outbreakAnd the guy who checked his work was a priest.http://kor
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Dr. Alia Amir
aliawhs
As a history junkie, I am thrilled to know about series on Turk lalaCongrats to @iamhumayunsaeed & @adnanactor on this historical series on Abdur Rahman Peshawari &
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Soutik Biswas
soutikBBC
THREAD: In 1894, Waldemar Haffkine, a Russian Jew trained in Paris, travelled to Calcutta armed with a cholera vaccine. The slums were battling an outbreak of the disease. The 33-year-old
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nidaaro
On this day of Black History Month, I want y’all to know that Argentina systemically erased it’s black population from 50 % (in some provinces) in the 1700’s to about
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Anti-racist Geography Curriculum
ARgeogcurric
THREAD: Subject knowledge update on Haiti 2010 EarthquakeHaiti is one of the poorest countries in the world as it has been impoverished by a ‘debt’ after the successful slave revolution
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(((Caitlin Hollander)))
effortlesslycat
(THREAD: 1/5) As a #genealogist, you have to be fairly emotionally insulated against tragedy. Otherwise, we'd all lose our minds early on, between high infant mortality rates, genocides, and epidemics.
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