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Smallpox, and Jenner

Welcome to the eighteenth century, at a point when Europe is going through another major smallpox outbreak, a disease that by this point has been plaguing populations around the globe for centuries.
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The Great Plague

in the final plague episode of the series, Professor Peter Millican talks to his guests about the last major outbreak of this horrific disease in seventeenth-century England.
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The Black Death

Professor Peter Millican arrives in the fourteenth century and meets history's most notorious plague outbreak.
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The Plague of Justinian

Welcome to the Eastern Roman Empire in the sixth century. This time, Professor Peter Millican discusses a plague that historians and medical experts agree was likely the first plague pandemic humanity experienced.
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Athens: the first plague?

Join Professor Peter Millican in 5th century Athens, a crowded city in the midst of a siege, where a devastating disease had just erupted.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Live Event: Invalids on the Move

Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

Is my bacon sandwich really going to kill me?

Statistician Dr Jennifer Rogers discusses the numbers linked to processed meat and bowel cancer.
Cancer

Cleaning up misfolded proteins

Misfolded proteins can either create the loss of a cellular function, or escape degradation, causing aggregation diseases.
Leaders for the world's future - The Rhodes Trust

Emerging Diseases and the Prospect of the Next Pandemic

Mr David Quammen discusses emerging diseases at the Rhodes Trust Scholarship 110th anniversary event.
NDM Units

The Jenner Institute

Meet the Jenner Institute.
Alumni Weekend

Emerging infectious diseases

Emerging infectious diseases are often in the news but are there really more of them? Here we explore how infections invade human populations, how new pathogens adapt to become efficient infections of humans and how to predict what might happen next.
Medical Sciences

Andrew Pollard on Childhood Disease

Professor Andrew Pollard, Professor of Paediatric Infection and Immunity, and Director of the Oxford Vaccine Centre, discusses childhood diseases, his research into vaccinations, and the problems facing childhood immunisation in the UK and abroad.

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