By Christie Moffatt This week is “Mosquito Control Awareness week,” and agencies across the Department of Health and Human Services are taking this opportunity to share (and hoping that you’ll help re-share) guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on ways to control mosquitoes in and around your home, an important […]
Tag Archives: epidemic
March
26
Ebola at One Year
posted by Circulating Now
By Elizabeth Mullen and Christie Moffatt This week marks one year since the World Health Organization announced that the deadly outbreak in Guinea was Ebola. To date, the outbreak has claimed over 10,000 lives, the largest Ebola epidemic since its discovery in 1976. The National Library of Medicine’s role has been to provide information resources […]
January
15
Influenza Precautions, Then and Now
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Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Tom Ewing, Professor of History and Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Professor Ewing offers a comparison of health recommendations during the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918 and today. On October 18, 1918, the Illustrated Current […]
November
19
Future Historical Collections: Archiving the 2014 Ebola Outbreak
posted by Circulating Now
By Christie Moffatt When future researchers look back at the current Ebola outbreak, what resources will they want to explore? What will they want to know? Of the news and information about Ebola that is created and shared digitally over the web, what will remain to be examined one, ten, or even fifty years from […]
December
05
Future Explorations of the Modern Flu
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By Christie Moffatt The research underway on the 1918 flu epidemic described in Dr. Thomas Ewing’s recent post here on Circulating Now is a fascinating example of the long-term research value of news communications. Dr. Ewing describes how health officials conducted a publicity and education campaign in the newspapers to prevent the spread of the […]
December
01
Getting to Zero: World AIDS Day
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By Erika Mills Currently, 35 million people around the world are living with HIV. Many lack access to vital information and resources that would help prevent the spread of the disease. For those living with HIV/AIDS, lifesaving medicines are often out of reach while discrimination presents yet another obstacle to health and well-being. In 1988, […]
November
26
Giving Thanks
posted by circulating now
By Elizabeth A. Mullen and Jeffrey S. Reznick In the NLM’s History of Medicine Division, we have a lot to be thankful for this season. During the past year, we have completed a number of great projects, many of which have been featured here on Circulating Now. And the blog is itself one of the […]
