‘Outbreak’ puts the life cycle of an epidemic on display
A new Smithsonian exhibit highlights how infectious diseases shape our world
SOCIAL EPIDEMIC In a new Smithsonian exhibit, activist signs and buttons from the AIDS epidemic highlight some of the social consequences of infectious disease outbreaks.
James Di Loreto and Lucia RM Martino/Smithsonian Institution
In 1918, a pandemic of Spanish flu killed as much as 5 percent of the world’s population.