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Clara Maass
...that in the name of science,
American
nurse
Clara Maass
(pictured)
volunteered to be bitten by
yellow fever
-carrying
mosquitoes
seven times, caught the disease twice, and ultimately died from it?
...that
obesity
,
Alzheimer's disease
and
cancer
have been
associated with infectious pathogens
?
...that the village of
Cellardyke
in
Fife
,
Scotland
, is the site of the first confirmed case of
H5N1
avian flu
in the
United Kingdom
?
...that Australian
Edward Both
invented the
Both respirator
, an
iron lung
made from
plywood
, to fight a
polio
epidemic in 1937?
...that the award-winning film
Frank's Cock
is split into quadrants to symbolise the "fragmentation of the body" experienced by those with
AIDS
?
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