Disease
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Bacteriophages and the Fight Against Cholera in Cold War Afghanistan

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Science History Institute Mounts New Outdoor Exhibition
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Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

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What Causes Alzheimer’s?

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Take a Watery Journey through History and Science with Institute’s New ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Opening September 14
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Vampire Panic

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Searching for Isabel Morgan

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Interview with Stéphane Bancel

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Vicious Doctors and Cruel Diseases in 18th-Century Jamaica

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Wayne Woolley’s Marvelously Equipped Mind

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When Mosquitoes Cured Insanity

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Wendy Zukerman standing on stage holding microphone, wearing t-shirt that reads "science isn't here to make you feel better."

Predicting the Pandemic

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Visit Philadelphia: History, Culture & Cocktails
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COVID’s Hidden Toll on Nurses

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Quacks, Plagues, and Pandemics

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The Why: A Camera, a Mask, and 2020’s Most Enduring Image
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UWISHUNU: The Top Things to Do in Philly This Week & Weekend, November 2–8
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The Washington Post: The Idea of Herd Immunity to Manage the Coronavirus Should Ring Alarm Bells
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Philadelphia Nurse Sara Cohen in her Personal Protective Equipment

Between Us and Catastrophe

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PhillyVoice: Photos of Essential Workers to Be Displayed by the Science History Institute
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A nurse in a mask

Between Us and Catastrophe
Museum
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Joseph Goldberger’s Filth Parties

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Science and Disability: Part 2

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Interview with Magda Marquet

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A Silent, Savage Menace: Reassessing "Panic in the Streets"

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Interview with Robert Langer

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Interview with Mark Stevenson

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Interview with John Maraganore

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Interview with Katrine Bosley

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Hashime Murayama and the Art of Saving Lives

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Interview with William Haseltine

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Interview with Susan Weiss

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Interview with Sue Desmond-Hellmann

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Former Gilead CEO John C. Martin holds bottle of Truvada

Interview with John C. Martin

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The Story of Serum Therapy

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Spit Spreads Death

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A Message from the Science History Institute about COVID-19
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Our Oldest, Deadliest Foe

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Smallpox and the Long Road to Eradication

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San Francisco’s Plague Years

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Book Club: The Story of the Polio Vaccine

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Vaccinating for polio in South Sudan, 2014.

Political Ills

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