https://www.markhonigsbaum.com/about-us daily 0.75 2024-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c70049eab1a6212174b5603/1551706325560-3F9JDP45SN3LA29J5DFE/Mark2.jpg BIO https://www.markhonigsbaum.com/events daily 0.75 2020-10-31 https://www.markhonigsbaum.com/events/2020/12/2/the-pandemic-imagination-between-science-history-and-public-health monthly 0.5 2020-10-31 https://www.markhonigsbaum.com/events/2020/11/20/covid-19-known-unknowns monthly 0.5 2020-10-31 https://www.markhonigsbaum.com/events/2020/11/10/pandemics-past-and-present monthly 0.5 2020-10-31 https://www.markhonigsbaum.com/events/2020/11/10/royal-college-of-pathologists-book-club monthly 0.5 2020-10-31 https://www.markhonigsbaum.com/events/2020/11/6/charleston-to-charleston-literary-festival monthly 0.5 2020-10-31 https://www.markhonigsbaum.com/events/2019/8/28/pandemics monthly 0.5 2019-08-08 https://www.markhonigsbaum.com/events/https/naturalhistorysiedu/events/measles-intersection-science-and-society monthly 0.5 2019-08-08 https://www.markhonigsbaum.com/events/2019/4/26/inevitable-epidemics monthly 0.5 2019-04-26 https://www.markhonigsbaum.com/events/2019/4/30/past-times-the-pandemic-century-with-mark-honigsbaum monthly 0.5 2019-03-04 https://www.markhonigsbaum.com/events/2019/4/3/join-us-for-a-talk-by-medical-historian-mark-honigsbaum-at-the-launch-of-his-new-book-the-pandemic-century monthly 0.5 2019-03-18 https://www.markhonigsbaum.com/our-team daily 0.75 2025-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c70049eab1a6212174b5603/494b03cf-7d34-4f6e-8b5e-15c01c49c3c5/Seattle+police+masks.jpg JOURNALISM - Spanish Flu: the killer that still stalks us The 1918-1919 influenza pandemic the deadliest pandemics of modern tiems, claiming at least 50m lives globally. But despite more than a century of scientific advances, we still don’t know where the “Spanish flu” came from, or why the virus proved so deadly to adults in the prime of life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c70049eab1a6212174b5603/1604141472047-FL2DNLQY8296P093GQF6/Screen+Shot+2020-10-31+at+10.50.10.png JOURNALISM - How do pandemics end? Observer, 18 October 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c70049eab1a6212174b5603/1551713106682-M6WW2S8TW1462IMIVGS5/1.Road-to-Zero_Ebola-motorbike_ParkinParkin_0.jpg JOURNALISM - Ebola: the road to zero https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c70049eab1a6212174b5603/1552411714017-WQH3TR0MDL4NXI173AME/Ernst+Leitz+cover.jpg JOURNALISM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c70049eab1a6212174b5603/1552843804414-T1FO0GXD2OG5P2R2TIXV/1.jpg JOURNALISM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c70049eab1a6212174b5603/1551983172153-9BOZ2V2YRO3HCVQ7I83W/Andy+Murray.jpg JOURNALISM Teen spirit: Andy Murray on girls, growing pains and winning Wimbledon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c70049eab1a6212174b5603/1551982783888-NM54RPY3BMS0NSOPRS8G/77+Paul+Dadge.jpeg JOURNALISM - My part in the 7/7 conspiracy theory that refused to die In 2006, I accidentally triggered a conspiracy theory about the London tube bombings. It was a preview of how the internet and social media would make us more susceptible to rumours and information taken out of context. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c70049eab1a6212174b5603/5906bf40-f195-4047-a59e-79dc27521b3b/DSCF1586.JPG JOURNALISM - The miraculous Quillay tree A compound from the bark of the Chilean soapbark tree is revolutionising vaccine adjuvants. But because of climate change and illegal logging in Chile’s Quillay forests, bark supplies are running low, jeopardising global efforts to eliminate malaria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c70049eab1a6212174b5603/7018f50b-aecd-4b1c-9850-d01370e86ef6/Screenshot+2023-12-17+at+17.21.31.jpg JOURNALISM - The Heart of the Matter It was on a routine visit to the doctor that my GP uttered the phrase every middle-aged man dreads: "Your blood pressure is a little raised” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c70049eab1a6212174b5603/1604158450508-2EKEW9WYSJ13ILPYO33G/Screen+Shot+2020-10-31+at+15.33.20.png JOURNALISM - Why bats are the perfect hosts for viruses Spectator, 15 August 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c70049eab1a6212174b5603/6944c55a-f62b-4973-9d36-6b28b707aed7/Screenshot+2023-12-17+at+16.59.47.jpg JOURNALISM - Sickly Sweet The molecules that cover our cells have interacted over the ages with our environment and the diseases that plague us – and in the process shaped our progress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c70049eab1a6212174b5603/1589737192720-XCFLAFZZCM57Q5QCOXE6/2150198-_n-1580830073.jpg JOURNALISM - How our modern world creates outbreaks like coronavirus The interior of "Wuhan Livingroom", which is converted into a hospital to receive patients infected with the novel coronavirus, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, on Feb. 4, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c70049eab1a6212174b5603/f1f2f97a-447e-45f1-8a83-0dde029f3198/Bats+%2B+Blame+still.png JOURNALISM - Was it the bats all along? A new film about the origins of Covid-19 tells how rightwing conspiracy theorists pushed the lab-leak theory to their own ends, suppressing the work of real scientists - The Observer, 30 April 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c70049eab1a6212174b5603/53ec7b25-9d56-4b60-8bef-5d3bc4c52ad3/Screenshot+2023-12-17+at+17.38.40.png JOURNALISM - Why do humans cry? We all cry - I tend to get particulary weepy on planes. 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The plaque was unveiled by New Zealand’s Prime MInister Jacinda Ahern on November 6, 2019 – 55 days before the first report of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, in central China. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c70049eab1a6212174b5603/1553453080865-U9I3J7ES3NF5CS0PRPZ0/150210154413-vaccines-2-cfb-exlarge-169.jpg Essays https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c70049eab1a6212174b5603/1604159921580-BFTNYPF9PWJT93G4QHF4/Screen+Shot+2020-10-31+at+15.57.12.png Essays - Taking pandemic sequelae seriously Lancet, 12 October 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c70049eab1a6212174b5603/1553452426136-IZN5U4CXVP683VLVJ2QS/default.jpg Essays The Aids Memorial Qult: each of the nearly 1,920 panels is dedicated to a vicitm of the pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c70049eab1a6212174b5603/dc1216a6-6aa0-4b78-9802-19eea58d5b1a/RFK+Jr.png Essays - Why RFK Jr could be a disaster for American healthcare It is deeply troubling that the USA’s new health secretary believes in conspiracy theories and is hostile towards modern medicine. 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