Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates; their novels highlight the fragility of public health today ...

Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease. However, the production of better quality ...

In my view, the health of the world's citizens, in the instance of infectious diseases, is remarkably good, even though a number of diseases are not under adequate control. Malaria still is a ...

Kudos to the Caledonian Record for publishing the Guest Commentary: Infectious Public Health Today, CR 12/13/2024. This gave an excellent prospective of vaccine preventable diseases in the 19th ...

Comparisons between our current era and the societal rot of the Gilded Age abound. But it might be more useful to explore how ...

By the late 19th century, the government was more willing ... During this period, diseases targeted by vaccination programmes included rabies and typhoid.