Having spent 26 years in Public Health I would recommend this museum to anyone interested in Epidemiology or entering the field of Public Health (sometimes called Community Medicine).
For me there were great exhibits such as photos of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic that killed more than 20 Million world wide, the history of polio before vaccines, tobacco control, HIV (the AIDS virus) in the 1980s, Legionnaires disease, obesity, injury prevention, vaccine development, health inequity etc.
For me I recall the outbreak of Botulism due to contaminated chopped garlic in oil that we investigated in 1985 - the year before Expo 86. We were helped by an EIS officer (Epidemic Investigation Service) Dr Michael St Louis from CDC to manage a case control study that enabled us to determine the source of the Botulism that affected 33 people, not just locally but some cases we discovered had been traveling from Holland.
This is an iron lung used for those who have been affected by polio which has paralyzed them from the waist or even neck down.
This would be a public advertisement during the Influenza Pandemic of 1918
No comments:
Post a Comment