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Epidemics

  • Medical history: When a typhus epidemic killed thousands at the height of the Second World War

    Medical history: When a typhus epidemic killed thousands at the height of the Second World War

    Phil Craig
    · May 29, 2025 · 08:30 am
  • A new book examines how epidemics have been represented in Indian literature and cultural media

    A new book examines how epidemics have been represented in Indian literature and cultural media

    Dilip K Das
    · May 09, 2025 · 01:30 pm
  • Urban development is the key to controlling the scourge of infectious diseases in India

    Urban development is the key to controlling the scourge of infectious diseases in India

    Olivier Telle, The Conversation
    · Apr 21, 2018 · 02:30 pm
  • Explained: How rising temperatures might be helping dengue to spread through India

    Explained: How rising temperatures might be helping dengue to spread through India

    Priyanka Vora
    · Nov 01, 2017 · 03:28 pm