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- Tags: disease
- Item Type: Historical Map
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IsabellaC
This map, produced in 1944, shows major “tropical diseases” and where they occur in the world. A stylized image of the vector or symptoms of the disease is drawn over each afflicted region. Along the bottom of the map is a key describing which image…
Tags: artzybasheff, cholera, dengue, disease, fly, helminthic disease, IC, images, Japanese river fever, leishmaniasis, leprosy, magazine, malaria, mosquito, pests, plague, rat, relapsing fever, Rocky Mountain fever, sleeping sickness, text, tick, tularemia, typhus, world map, worm, yaws, yellow fever
IsabellaC
This map is entitled the “Original map of the Transvaal or South-African Republic” and was published in 1875. It was the first comprehensive and accurate map of the Transvaal and was published just before the outbreak of the First Boer War. The map…
Tags: Africa, Boers, British Influence, Colonialism, diamonds, disease, gold, IC, Portuguese influence, South Africa, Transvaal, tsetse fly
IsabellaC
This map shows how the cholera epidemic spread across the world from 1817-1831. The only cities labeled on the map are places at which cholera was recorded during the epidemic, clearly showing the impressive geographical range the epidemic reached.…
Tags: cholera, dates, disease, IC, Place Names, rivers, transmission, world map