# PANDEMICS / A SHORT HISTORY OF DISEASE

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Category: Health
Slides: 14
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:19:39.533Z
Tags: catalog, health, pandemics

## Summary

From Justinian's plague to the COVID-19 era — thirteen panels of contagion, catastrophe, and the slow accumulation of public-health wisdom. Key sections include: PANDEMICS; A SHORT HISTORY OF DISEASE; THE PLAGUE OF JUSTINIAN; THE BLACK DEATH; SMALLPOX CROSSES THE ATLANTIC; THE GREAT INFLUENZA; HIV / AIDS; SARS — THE NEAR MISS; H1N1 — "SWINE FLU"; EBOLA IN WEST AFRICA.

## Slide Outline

1. PANDEMICS
2. A SHORT HISTORY OF DISEASE
3. THE PLAGUE OF JUSTINIAN
4. THE BLACK DEATH
5. SMALLPOX CROSSES THE ATLANTIC
6. THE GREAT INFLUENZA
7. HIV / AIDS
8. SARS — THE NEAR MISS
9. H1N1 — "SWINE FLU"
10. EBOLA IN WEST AFRICA
11. COVID-19
12. LESSONS FROM THE FIELD
13. THE NEXT ONE
14. KEEP STUDYING. KEEP WASHING.

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