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How Epidemics End
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Paul Kelton and Smallpox among American Indigenous Populations

Professor Paul Kelton (Stony Brook) and Dr Erica Charters discuss the role of smallpox in American indigenous history and culture and how smallpox finally ended.
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Coronavirus and ‘Disease X’

Professor Peter Millican interviews the Oxford scientists working at the forefront of research into Disease X
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Ebola

Professor Peter Millican begins the final episode of this series in 2014, at the onset of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
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HIV/AIDS

In the ninth episode of our History of Pandemics season, Professor Peter Millican leaves the perils of influenza behind, only to discover an entirely new virus: HIV.
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The 'Spanish' Flu

Professor Peter Millican arrives in the twentieth century, during the last years of the Great War, to a pandemic which you may have read a lot about during the early coverage of our current COVID outbreak.
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'Russian' Flu: the pandemic that wasn't?

In this episode, Professor Peter Millican discusses a controversial outbreak...
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Cholera

Professor Peter Millican makes it to the nineteenth century to discuss the achievements of John Snow
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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.
History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems

Smallpox in poetry

Smallpox was rife in the eighteenth century, leaving its mark both on its sufferers, and on the literature of the period. This podcast explores its history in verse.
Getting to Zero: Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2009

Global Eradication of Infectious Diseases: Can 'Not Very Much' undermine the goal of 'None at All'?

Despite the well-publicised success of global smallpox eradication, 'zero' remains an elusive goal for the majority of vaccine-preventable diseases, making reduced pathogen circulation, or direct protection of the vulnerable more achievable strategies.

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