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Killing me slowly: 7 of the longest executions in history

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Wash your hands: the cautionary tale of Typhoid Mary, the original super-spreader

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The NHS: a 70-year-old Mistake?

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Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, sick with Spanish flu at a hospital ward at Camp Funston: Wikipedia

The forgotten agony - the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-19

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Six outbreaks and pandemics that horrified humanity

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Splendid isolation: great minds who triumphed in lockdown

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Strictly plague dancing: The dancing mania of 1518

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