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For what's left of illustration twitter, here are my pieces that were selected for the AI41. Looking forward to The Party tonight, though I will be masked. On the history of Diphtheria for Smithsonian Magazine (left), and an unpublished cover for A Christmas Carol (right).

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2022-11-11

August issue now online. Includes co-infections/secondary infections/antimicrobial use in hospitalisations, submicroscopic global patterns, inflammatory profile, outbreak, and saliva screening https://t.co/I1d8H6uBnH

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2021-08-04

Richard Tennant Cooper (1885-1957)
A ghostly skeleton trying to strangle a sick child; representing diphtheria.
Via https://t.co/ZFlwWfaDbu

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2021-08-01

VACCINES FOR ALL by designs is "an ode to the serum run in 1925 during the diphtheria epidemic in Alaska, where vaccines were delivered to Nome by sled dog teams." Via 💉
Learn more at https://t.co/9BeKiUn5P2

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2021-04-12

The french microbiologist Émile Roux died in 1933 at the age of 79. He was one of Louis closest collaborators, co-founder of the and responsible for the Institute's production of the anti-#diphtheria serum.

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2020-11-03

some english language diphtheria posters
I especially like the sinister hand reaching for the baby in the 1st one, very direct

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2020-08-25

Neel returned to NY where her 1y old daughter died of diphtheria. This informed her treatment of motherhood, loss & anxiety. The birth of her 2nd child inspired the bleak ‘Well Baby Clinic’ (1928). Carlos (1926), After the Death of a Child (1927-8) & Nadja (1928)

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2020-07-04

She returned to NY where her 1y old daughter died of diphtheria. This informed her treatment of motherhood, loss & anxiety. The birth of her 2nd child inspired the bleak ‘Well Baby Clinic’ (1928). Carlos (1926), After the Death of a Child (1927-8) & Nadja (1928)

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2020-05-17

“Have you given your child all the anti-diphtheria vaccines?” Soviet poster, 1958

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2020-04-11

Boots for the theatre, for a boat trip on the Volga & the first stirs of a desperate love affair. Diphtheria & the entrancement of a handsome face in the hospital gardens. Everything he paints is for her, the whole of Russia he remakes for her each night in pigment & oil & light.

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2019-10-09

Dr. Anna Wessels Williams (1863-1954), M.D., a pioneer in infectious disease and public health advocate. She developed an effective treatment for diphtheria and a rapid diagnostic for rabies.

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2019-04-24

German surgeon & pathologist Max Wilms (1867-1918) published “Mixed Tumours of the Kidney” in 1899, described nephroblastoma and its origin, now known as Wilms tumour. He contracted diphtheria during emergency tracheotomy on a French POW during WW I. His patient survived.

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2018-08-24

One of the most feared of caused a false membrane to grow over the larynx--suffocating victims.

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2018-02-21

In 1875, the 243-person death toll from diphtheria comprised 8.2% of all reported deaths. As was typical of the disease, children comprised most of the mortalities. The arrived in 1890s

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2018-01-10

In 1875, the 243-person death toll from diphtheria comprised 8.2% of all reported deaths. As was typical of the disease, children comprised most of the mortalities. The arrived in 1890s

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2018-01-10