Epidemics through History

Project Description (Mangler's website)

Online Database Resources

• Teen Health and Wellness

• Encyclopedia Britannica

• World Book Encyclopedia

• Gale InfoTrac Power Search Check out 'Research in Context'

Diseases (Listed Alphabetically)

Bubonic Plague

• The Black Death: Bubonic Plague

• The Plague from Teen Health and Wellness

• MedLinePlus: Plague

• Black Death (Mr. Donn)

• Black Death in Asia

• Secrets of the Dead: Mysteries of the Black Death (PBS)

• How Plague Works (How Stuff Works)

• Bubonic Plague from Research in Context

Cholera

• Cholera Online: A Modern Pandemic in Texts & Pictures

• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC): Cholera

• World Health Organization (WHO): Cholera

• MedicineNet: Cholera

• Cholera Prevention (Mayo Clinic)

• Cholera's 7 Pandemics

• John Snow & the Broad Street Pump: On the Trail of an Epidemic

• Cholera from Teen Health and Wellness

• Britannica Online: Cholera

• Archiving Early America

• Cholera from Research In Context - Gale

Ebola

• Medline Plus: Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever

• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC): Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever

• Ebola from Teen Health and Wellness

• Global Alert & Response: Ebola (WHO - World Health Organization)

• Brief General Ebola History - Africa Speaks

• National Geographic Daily News: Ebola Cured in Monkeys...Hope For Humans?

• Many articles in Gale InfoTrac such as: Battling Ebola: a physician's firsthand account of the fight against the killer virus

• Ebola from Research in Context - Gale

Influenza

• Mayo Clinic: Influenza

• MedLine Plus: Flu

• KidsHealth: Influenza (Flu)

• WebMD: What Is Influenza?

• WebMD: What is the Flu?

• World Health Organization (WHO): Influenza

• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC): Seasonal Influenza (Flu)

• 1918 Flu Pandemic

• PBS American Experience: Influenza 1918

• When Fort Devens Was Ground Zero of Flu Pandemic (1918)

• Flu by Ann Squire - TrueFlix Database

• January 2018 Newsela article: Flu activity in the US is the highest it's been in nearly a decade

Malaria

• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC): Malaria

• Malaria from Sick! Research in Context - Gale

• Malaria: Super Killer by S Person ebook on MackinVIA (use google username/password)

• World Health Organization (WHO): 10 Facts on Malaria

• Malaria from Teen Health and Wellness

• Malaria No More

• Nothing But Nets

• Encyclopedia Britannica

• TED Talk: 3 Reasons We Still Haven't Gotten Rid of Malaria

• TED Talk: Why I Work With the Most Dangerous Animals on Earth - Mosquitoes (topic #4 - ongoing research)

Measles

• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention: Measles

• World Health Organization: Measles

• Measles from Sick! Encyclopedia and MORE in Research in Context - Gale

• Measles History

• Measles: History of Vaccines

• History of Measles & MMR Vaccination

• CNN Measles Outbreak 2015

• LA Times Measles Outbreak 2015

Polio

• Mayo Clinic: Polio

• Polio Global Eradication Initiative

• Kids Health: Polio

• Polio from Teen Health and Wellness

• History of Polio

• Defeating Polio, the Disease That Paralyzed America

• Salk, Sabine, & the Race Against Polio

• Sister Kenny Treatments

• CDC SToP (Stop Transmission of Polio)

• How India Fought Polio - and Won

Smallpox

• MedLine Plus: Smallpox

• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC): Smallpox

• Kids Health: Smallpox

• Smallpox from Teen Health and Wellness

• BBC History: Edward Jenner

• The Story of Smallpox (Guns, Germs & Steel)

• Council on Foreign Relations: Smallpox

• Timeline of Smallpox (History of Vaccines)

• World Health Organization (WHO): Frequently Asked Questions About Smallpox

• Nature Magazine: WHO To Decide Fate of Smallpox Stocks

Tuberculosis

• Mayo Clinic: Tuberculosis

• MedicineNet: Tuberculosis (TB)

• MedLine Plus: Tuberculosis

• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC): Tuberculosis (TB)

• Tuberculosis from Teen Health and Wellness

• World Health Organization (WHO): Drug Resistant Tuberculosis

• Stop TB

• Tuberculosis from Sick! Encyclopedia and MANY more, Research in Context - Gale

Typhoid Fever

• MedLine Plus: Typhoid Fever

• New York State Department of Public Health: Typhoid Fever

• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC): Typhoid Fever

• Typhoid Fever from Teen Health and Wellness

• Typhoid Fever History

• World Health Organization (WHO) Global Alter & Response: Typhoid Fever

• Walter Reed & Typhoid Fever

• NOVA: The Most Dangerous Woman in America: Typhoid Mary

• Terrible Typhoid Mary ebook in MackinVIA (log in with google username/password)

Yellow Fever

• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC): Yellow Fever

• Yellow Fever from World of Scientific Discovery and MORE, Research in Context - Gale

• World Health Organization: Yellow Fever

• Britannica: Yellow Fever

• New York State Department of Public Health: Yellow Fever

• Yellow Fever Vaccine (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia)

• CDC Yellow Fever Vaccine Course - Traveler's Health

• Yellow Fever in New Orleans, 1817-1905 (Statistics)

• Yellow Fever & the Reed Commission, 1898-1901

• Yellow Fever Attacks Philadelphia, 1793 (Eyewitness to History)

History of Medicine

• History Learning Site: History of Medicine

• HistoryWorld: History of Medicine

• • Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever: Fact Sheet