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The end of an epidemic, like #covid19, is difficult to pinpoint, because of the myriad actors involved in and affected by an epidemic operate on diverging and increasingly un-synchronised time scales. #histmed #histsci #histSTM.

See @eclecticpneumas, the author of @Centaurus_ESHS in discussion with @EricaCharters and @DoraVargha.

Arthur Rose argues that many of the historiographical complications ensuing between the different ideas of the “ending” of epidemics may be resolved by assessing whether they bring “closure” or not. #histmed #histsci #histSTM.

Roderick Bailey explores the divergence between Anglo-American and Italian narratives about the ending of louse-borne typhus in Naples in 1943. #histmed #histsci #histSTM.

See Margaret Pelling the author of @Centaurus_ESHS in discussion with @EricaCharters:

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the name of John Snow was everywhere. This #openaccess article shows how different versions of Snow's persona came to represent basic and often conflicting conceptions of epidemiology. #histmed #histsci #histSTM.

See @pkelton, the author of @Centaurus_ESHS in discussion with @EricaCharters:

To answer how epidemics like #covid19 end, one must ask (1) how particular waves of epidemics end, and (2) how the disease become eradicated. These are separate questions. #histmed #histsci #histSTM.

This #openaccess article suggests that historians' engagement with new biological and medical anthropological research will allow new understandings of epidemics and their endings. #histmed #histsci #histSTM.

See authors Clark Spencer Larsen and Fabian Crespo @OSUanthro @CACHeUofL of in discussion with @EricaCharters:

Pathogens continue to circulate, even after the end of an epidemic, like #covid19. Thus, there is no “end,” just evolution of opportunistic pathogens and our ability (or not) to mitigate them. #histmed #histsci #histSTM @OSUanthro @CACHeUofL .

This article discusses a paradox in the history of tuberculosis: its eradication has been seen as imminent ever since it was defined as a condition with a necessary bacterial cause in 1882, but, to date, has failed to arrive. #histmed #histsci #histSTM.

Author Cristiana Bastos of @Centaurus_ESHS discusses with @EricaCharters:

This #openaccess article addresses some infectious diseases that never really “ended,” even though their morbidity, their social impact, and their public visibility have faded away: AIDS, syphilis, and measles. #histmed #histsci #histSTM.

See author Virginia Berridge @LSHTM of @Centaurus_ESHS in discussion with @EricaCharters:

This #openaccess article examines HIV/AIDS in the '80s and '90s and swine flu in 2009 in the UK as comparative “tracer epidemics” to understand the multiplicity of endings from the perspective of contemporary history of policy. #histmed #histsci #histSTM.

Jean Segata examines how chikungunya virus disease is epidemiologically and politically invisible in Brazil, unlike other diseases related to the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, such as Zika, dengue, and yellow fever. #histmed #histsci #histSTM.

This #openaccess article explores the question of how malaria “ends” in Myanmar, since malaria has been categorized both as an epidemic and as being endemic on seemingly countless occasions. #histmed #histsci #histSTM.