This focus on #leprosy ties in with my 🧵 from this morning, which was talking about the ways understandings of zoonotics (transference of diseases between animals & humans) are being informed by histories of cultural practices. bsky.app/profile/moni... This is the new age of #GlobalHealthHistory.
This has been quite a long route from marginal text missing from a photograph to connections to the "slow pandemic" that was leprosy in the Middle Ages (constantinusafricanus.com/2025/01/26/l...). But that's how #histmed works in an interdisciplinary mode. Thanks to all who have contributed!
Leprosy in the Global Middle Ages: A Slow Pandemic
In August 2024, Jordan became the first country to officially eliminate leprosy.1 Countries participating in the World Health Organization (WHO)2 have committed not simply to bringing percentages o…
constantinusafricanus.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This focus on #leprosy ties in with my 🧵 from this morning, which was talking about the ways understandings of zoonotics (transference of diseases between animals & humans) are being informed by histories of cultural practices. bsky.app/profile/moni... This is the new age of #GlobalHealthHistory.
Big news in #GlobalHealthHistory today. A species of bacterium that causes leprosy, discovered in 2008 in modern patients, has been proven to have been present in the Americas well before European arrival. More details in 🧵 below: www.science.org/content/arti... #GlobalMiddleAges #histmed #aDNA 🧪
Leprosy was an American scourge long before Europeans arrived
Scientists find DNA from an enigmatic bacterium in 1000-year-old skeletons
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May 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Big news in #GlobalHealthHistory today. A species of bacterium that causes leprosy, discovered in 2008 in modern patients, has been proven to have been present in the Americas well before European arrival. More details in 🧵 below: www.science.org/content/arti... #GlobalMiddleAges #histmed #aDNA 🧪
Zowie! What an amazing thread. I've been doing #GlobalHealthHistory for over 15 years and I've never seen anything like this. Thank you!
February 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Zowie! What an amazing thread. I've been doing #GlobalHealthHistory for over 15 years and I've never seen anything like this. Thank you!
Wow! Something I thought I'd never hear: "[Gänger and Osterhammel] have warned that if global historians did not answer historical questions about the [HIV] pandemic’s past and present properly, others who were less prepared would." www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/10.7788/... #GlobalHealthHistory
“the baboon is […] too much like man.” Entangled Primate History and the Beginnings of HIV in Colonial Africa | Tiere in der Geschichte | Animals in History
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August 7, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Wow! Something I thought I'd never hear: "[Gänger and Osterhammel] have warned that if global historians did not answer historical questions about the [HIV] pandemic’s past and present properly, others who were less prepared would." www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/10.7788/... #GlobalHealthHistory
Finally! The COVID historical responses we've been needing! Special issue of the journal Ethnohistory is devoted to the theme: "Indigenous Responses to Disease: Ethnohistory Inspired by COVID." read.dukeupress.edu/ethnohistory.... Only a couple of the articles are #OpenAccess. But spread the word!
Ethnohistory
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February 20, 2024 at 4:27 AM