What does the uneven neglect of #typhoid in global health owe to #colonial bacteriology & global north #biosecurity?
Learn fm @Kirchhelle & @CKirchhelle about #Bacteriophages, #PhagesTyping and Northern #Taxonomies of power in #Microbiology: https://doi.org/nvz8
The Life Of Typhoid Mary Was Worse Than You Thought
https://www.grunge.com/1755847/life-typhoid-mary-worse-than-thought/
English novelist 
#ArnoldBennet drank a glass of water in a #Paris Hotel to prove it was safe. He died two months later of 
#Typhoid!
#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Kublai Khan (1215) - founder of the #Yuan #Dynasty in #China.
Typhoid Mary, first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with #Typhoid fever, was born (1869).
Today is International Day of #Sign #Languages.
The 1915-16 Finnish typhoid epidemic spread via shared kitchens, lack of laundry & illiteracy. The introduction of central water distribution levelled risks, according to Jarmo Peltola, Henri Mikkola & Sakari Saaritsa in a new Social Science History article.
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.34
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @SocArXivBot @epiverse @healthecon #history #histodons #typhoid #Finland #Tampere
Shared kitchens, lack of laundry & illiteracy were vectors of vulnerability in the 1915-16 Finnish typhoid epidemic. Collective action in the form of a centralized distribution of pure water levelled risks, according to Peltola, Saaritsa & Mikkola in a new SSH article. Open access. https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.34
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @econhist @epiverse @sts @healthecon #histodons #Finland #Tampere #typhoid
#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Kublai Khan (1215) - founder of the #Yuan #Dynasty in #China.
Typhoid Mary, first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with #Typhoid fever, was born (1869).
Today is International Day of #Sign #Languages.
