A chronology of public-health measures during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic in Quebec, including isolation, closures, emergency hospitals and public guidance. Accounts cover Quebec City, Sherbrooke, Montreal, Laurierville, Scotstown and Ottawa.
Canada
Early coronavirus cases and infection clusters across France, including Paris, Lorient, Grenoble, Marseille, the Morbihan and Corsica, with a line marking distances between major clusters.
France
Places and regions across Europe, including Italian and French cities, Russia, Poland, and Scandinavia, associated with the plague.
Italy, France, Russian Federation and 17 more
Emergency public-health measures during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic in Sherbrooke, Montreal, Lévis and other Quebec cities, including emergency hospitals, church closures, sanitation, and restrictions on newspaper delivery.
Canada
Deaths and illnesses reported in a listeriosis outbreak across multiple U.S. states, including Colorado, Maryland, New Mexico and Texas.
United States
Communes in Calvados, Manche and Orne studied for plague outbreaks, with recorded years spanning 1624 to 1639.
France
Sites associated with the plague in Santa Maria d'Arenys, near Arenys de Mar, including a cemetery, hospice, apothecary and scenes featuring mourners, healers and porters.
Spain
Sites associated with Brisbane’s bubonic plague outbreak just after 1900, including infected houses, homes and local landmarks in Woolloongabba, Annerley and nearby suburbs.
Australia
Filming locations and scenes from the Russian film Major Grom: Plague Doctor, including landmarks, fictional characters’ homes and workplaces, and places featured in action scenes across Saint Petersburg.
Russian Federation
A June 2014 ride through the plains and mountains of Gifu Prefecture, Japan, recounted through encounters with mosquitoes, moths and swarms of caterpillars.
Japan
Camps, castles, homes and other named medieval-style places across Sweden, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Finland and other countries.
European Union: Sweden, United Kingdom, Ireland and 4 more
Sites and monuments commemorating Marseille’s 1720 plague, including references to Chevalier Roze, Bishop Belsunce and Jacques Daviel.
France
A walking route through central Rome tracing places connected with the early Jesuits and the plague, including the hospital where the first Jesuits served and where Aloysius Gonzaga contracted the disease. It runs from Santo Stanislao dei Polacchi to Sant’Eligio dei Ferraroli.
Italy
Walking circuit through Cabrières-d’Avignon and the Vaucluse countryside, with village streets, historic landmarks and views toward the Luberon. The route follows part of the Plague Wall, built in the 18th century to contain the spread of plague.
France
Historic sites across San Francisco tracing the bubonic plague outbreak, including cases, quarantine stations, laboratories, Chinatown resistance, and the political and racial conflicts that shaped efforts to contain the disease.
United States
A cultural walking route exploring Marseille’s plague history, from the Panier and Vieux-Port to the lazarets and quarantine sites on the Frioul Islands, including Lazaret Caroline and the port of quarantine at Pomègues.
France
A walking route through central Vienna from the Albertina to the Plague Column, passing landmarks including the Hofburg, Mozart Monument, Maria-Theresien-Platz, Parliament, Votive Church and St. Stephen's Cathedral.
Austria
Theatre project inspired by Antonin Artaud’s “The Theatre and the Plague,” bringing together performances and video responses by actors at theatres in Portugal and in Lisbon, Faro, Madeira, Porto, Viseu, Trieste, Barcelona, Santo Domingo and Rio de Janeiro.
European Union: Portugal, Brazil, Dominican Republic and 2 more
Castles, a loch, a coastal tower and a plague-ghost site associated with Halloween and dark stories in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
United Kingdom
Historic sites in Antofagasta, Chile, including the Cemetery of the Plague Victims and the ruins of the Pampa Unión and Chacabuco saltpeter works.
Chile
Screenings of the documentary How to Survive a Plague at universities, community venues and other locations across the United States.
United States
Street art around Caen, including murals of dinosaurs, storks, Godzilla, ravens, fish, a plague-mask figure and a robot holding a skull.
France
A hiking route along the Plague Wall in Vaucluse, France, near L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue.
France
Historic Milan sites connected to Alessandro Manzoni and The Betrothed, including his home, churches, plague-era landmarks and places tied to scenes and characters in the novel.
Italy
A 7.6 km walking route along the Mur de la Peste in Vaucluse, near Cavaillon, with recorded elevation changes.
France
Burial places and funerary sites across France, Prague, Giza, Viterbo and Tunis, including royal and military cemeteries, Jewish and Muslim cemeteries, ancient necropolises and plague-era burial grounds.
France, Czechia, Egypt and 2 more
Historic cultural landmarks in Kyoto, Japan, including Yasaka Shrine, Byōdō-in Phoenix Hall, Kinkaku-ji and Ginkaku-ji.
Japan
Street art in Calvados, France, including dinosaur tags, birds, fish, dragons, robots and a plague-doctor mask.
France
Legends and reported paranormal events in Piacenza, Italy, including ghost sightings, a miraculous unexploded bomb, plague-era lore, an ancient inscribed object and apparitions of the Virgin. The suggested itinerary visits sites around the city.
Italy
Sites significant to AIDS activism and the histories presented in How to Survive a Plague and We Were Here, including ACT UP demonstrations and the AIDS Memorial Quilt in New York, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco.
United States