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An exhibit showing a replica of contaminated meat.
museums

See a Collection of Sickening Objects at Portland's Outbreak Museum

From canned beets to milk jugs, each exhibit relates to a wave of deadly disease.
Emily E. Smith November 30, 2018
A postcard of the Loch Maree Hotel, built in 1872 and made famous by Queen Victoria's six-night stay.
food

The Lethal Lunch That Shook Scotland

From cold cuts to cold case.
Tal McThenia November 15, 2018
<em>Aedes aegypti</em> mosquitoes can transmit disease.
insects

How to Mail Mosquitoes

It involves a syringe.
Jessica Leigh Hester November 7, 2018
cemeteries

Here Lies E. Coli

There's a bunch of gross stuff, besides human bodies, hiding under graveyards.
Sarah Laskow October 22, 2018
This cow was the bait for the decoy, but was kept at a distance from the trap.
insects

To Build a Better Mosquito Trap, First Put a Cow in a Tent

Then pipe its scent to a warm decoy.
Samir S. Patel October 15, 2018
Listen up!
animals

The Bat-Loving Naturalists Translating the Silent Language of the Night

Listen in as they swat away mosquitoes and brave a dark forest to eavesdrop on echolocation.
Jessica Leigh Hester August 20, 2018
The original Saranac Lake cure cottage, known as "Little Red," established by Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau.
Saranac Lake, New York

Saranac Lake 'Cure Cottages'

Dozens of houses in the Adirondack Mountains are reminders of a literal "cottage industry" to cure people of a deadly disease.
Permanently Closed
Sjö-Gunnarsbo sanatorium
Ulricehamn SV, Sweden

Sjö-Gunnarsbo Sanatorium

An abandoned, deteriorating tuberculosis hospital from the turn of the 20th century.
Tāne Mahuta
trees

One of New Zealand's Most Majestic Trees Is in Danger

Tāne Mahuta is one of the oldest kauri trees in the world.
Sarah Laskow July 17, 2018
Athens, Greece

Wax Museum of Andreas Syggros

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.
Diplomats in Guangzhou have been experiencing strange symptoms.
mystery

The Mysterious Illness Affecting U.S. Diplomats in Cuba Has Spread to China

Scientists still haven’t figured out why or how the symptoms started.
Sarah Laskow June 7, 2018
Pythagoras, pictured here next to a fava bean plant, might have had good reason to fear them.
mathematics

Why Beans Were an Ancient Emblem of Death

Fava beans can be lethal.
Anne Ewbank May 25, 2018
Temple of Vaccinia.
Berkeley, England

Temple of Vaccinia

The "father of immunology" used this humble hut to offer the local people some of the world's first free vaccinations.
Other graves.
Lafayette, Indiana

Cholera Mass Graves of Fink Cemetery

An unknown number of cholera victims are buried in two nondescript graves.
Food was airdropped in April, ending the hunger winter.
nazis

How Famine Under the Nazis Revealed the Cause of Celiac Disease

A food shortage helped one doctor prove his theory.
Anne Ewbank March 29, 2018
Spinalonga fortress.
Lasithi, Greece

Spinalonga Island

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.
The bat roost.
Comfort, Texas

Hygieostatic Bat Roost

This unique tower has been home to malaria-fighting bats for 100 years.
The V-2 rocket (left) in the atrium of the Imperial War Museum in London.
poison

The Most Dangerous Things You Can See in Museums

From a V-2 rocket to arsenic wallpaper.
Jessica Leigh Hester March 15, 2018