A key approach used to address anti-vaccination #misinformation in the USA was leafletting and pamphlets, particularly in rural areas. Below detail from from a 1930 USA government brochure.

An 1803 cartoon by satirist James Gillray shows Edward Jenner vaccinating a patient with a sharp lancet. Other recent vaccinees display various side effects including sprouting horns or turning into cows. #Misinformation #PublicHealth

The Boxing Day cholera riot in 1831 Aberdeen is a perfect historical example of the dangers of pandemic-related #misinformation. Many suspected "Burke and Hare" style body snatching on the part of medics. Many cholera riots occurred in Europe (detail from Russia in LePetit) (FBF post - JSS on X)

By the early 1900s smallpox vaccination averted many child deaths in the UK. 🦠📉 BUT - invasive vaccination methods + poor sterilisation led to intense backlash. The anti-vax movement spread to Americas and Europe. #PublicHealth #Misinformation 1900s anti-vax poster - France

The UK government made vaccination mandatory in 1853, directly precipitating the organised 'anti-vax' movement. Opposition came on many grounds - including religious, political or ideological concerns. #PublicHealth #Misinformation 1900s UK cartoon poking fun at vaccination and 'quack' cures.

Look out for our additional upcoming posts on the history of #Publichealth #Misinformation🧐📊📰🦠 Also, if you can, check out the below event TONIGHT *Misinformation UNPACKED* - some online tickets are still available! bsky.app/profile/lsht...

Edwin Chadwick's 1842 "Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain" was initially prompted by the high rates of cholera in poor UK households. His cholera dot map illustrated the overlap between cholera and poverty in Leeds. #cholera #poverty

Japan sets a new record of nearly 100,000 people aged over 100 - and 88% are women. Mainly attributed to active lifestyles, and a diet high in fish and vegetables. New centenarians are celebrated with a national holiday today (15th), aka "Elder Day" 👴 👵 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In 25 days time..... #2025PumphandleLecture Find out more:

New tool to combat misinformation: Speak with an AI chatbot. New paper out in Science magazine @science.org

A well researched summary of the evidence for Florence Nightingale's voluntary secondment to Middlesex Hospital during the 1854 cholera outbreak: johnsnow.matrix.msu.edu/documentUplo...

Accuracy in the vein of John Snow MD

📢The 2025 Pumphandle Lecture will be given by: Dr Cesar Victora, Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil!! "From Local Insights to Global Impact: Four Decades of Child Health and Nutrition Epidemiology in Pelotas, Brazil." More information to come.

James Hargreaves, co-Chair of the Society testing out a new guided walk in London past points of key historical public health interest - and ending at the John Snow pub of course! Here with 11 visiting students from Cal Poly University

Major highlight/motif of the John Snow Musical "Something in the Water" is the song 🎼Three Lines 🎶 (below) Refers @thelancet.com obituary by then editor Thomas Wakley - just three sentences and 40 words long, on Dr Snow's death. An injustice corrected: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Preprint in @thelancet.com estimates that 8 million more children will die by 2040 due to US aid cuts The Effects of Reductions in United States Foreign Assistance on Global Health papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Billions of plastic syringes are discarded every year. Why are they not being recycled? 🔄 Find out in The Lancet 👉 tinyurl.com/yc5pzj6w

The John Snow Society sent a delegation down to balmy Bognor Regis 🌴to see the #WorldPremier of the John Snow musical: "Something in the Water"🎭 - At @chiunipress.bsky.social ‬ We think it's a potential BIG winner and are in talks to support its transfer to London. More pics to come! #publichealth

The World Premiere of the first Dr John Snow Musical (yes - a musical!) takes place in Chichester, England: "Something in the Water"🎭 It's practically sold out but there are a handful of tickets for the matinee tomorrow, Saturday 21st June: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/bog...

Event alert this September📢 Online and open to all: Hear from leading voices on ways understand and combat health #misinformation 👇

Prof Vikram Patel of @harvard.edu‬ describes the "Profound sadness, radiating like a throbbing abscess deep in my belly" upon receiving a termination of research grant funding notice #USAFundingCuts @TheLancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

A wide ranging and engaging talk on the history of infection and transmission by John Snow Society co-founder Professor Paul Fine on Thursday evening at @lshtm.bsky.social‬ - note the sartorial nod to the Soho cholera outbreak 👔 (Members can also own the tie - website link in bio)

Well done to the winning team: ...Quizzy Experimental Designs! ⚡ Who correctly answered niche questions such as 'What was Florence Nightingale doing during the 1854 Soho cholera outbreak?' and 'Provide at least one of Dr Snow's addresses in London?' Here with their prizes:

Thanks to all who came to the inaugural John Snow Society Quiz Tuesday night ⚡️ Professor Jimmy "The Answers" Whitworth was on top form in this jacket:

New in #TRSTMH: Ng, Maddren and Anderson assess the impact of infection and disease control interventions over the past decade using the #ESPEN database in this #commentary #GlobalHealth academic.oup.com/trstmh/advan...

Tomorrow:

The John Snow Society 'inaugural' Quiz is taking place in the Pumphandle Social, @lshtm.bsky.social on the 3rd June! ✨There will be prizes✨ Questions by Professor Jimmy 'The Answers' Whitworth

#Dataviz of the week: Study of a biology seminar series "Female speakers had smaller audiences, especially among professors, indicating higher visibility for male professors even with comparable productivity metrics [+similar topics]" Want the pre-print?👇 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

@nature.com "In 2000, the World Health Organization declared that measles had been eliminated from the United States..." However if it continues to circulate for more than a year, it will no longer be considered eliminated.

After more than 3 years of intense negotiations, WHO member states have finally reached a consensus on a new treaty to prevent, prepare for, and respond to pandemics. Find out more 👉 tinyurl.com/3dkzddzx

🌱 Unravel the plant mechanisms involved in plant-microbe interactions in Priya Reddy's winning entry for this year's #DanceYourPhD #biology category. Watch the entire video—and learn more about the other category winners: scim.ag/4lSpjCl

Lasers, lasers, lasers, lasers 🎵 🎉 Congratulations to Arfor Houwman for winning the #physics category and the extra AI/quantum prize in this year's #DanceYourPhD competition. Watch the entire video and learn more about the other category winners: scim.ag/4lSpjCl

New @bmj.com Food For Thought article series leads with global study of processed food consumption by country. #GlobalHealth www.bmj.com/content/383/....

New Global Burden of Diarrhoeal Diseases 1990-2021 modelling estimates out now: In children under 5 years, cholera-causing bacteria were in the top 10 of pathogens causing morbidity/death: Read more in @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social 👇 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

📢 Just one day remains to the close of our John Snow Birthday competitions: 1. Shows a picture of a London city skyline - what's interesting/relevant about this? 2. Explain the table as a milestone in history of the modern epidemiological method? Prizes for best correct answer to either one or two!

Here's the latest on the areas of US National Institutes of Health research funding cuts - in charts @nature.com #fundingcuts #doge #trump

Studies of researchers globally suggest there is a mental-health crisis in academia https://go.nature.com/3RNAbmZ

In a leaked spreadsheet seen by the @nytimes.com this week the USA is to end funding support to #GAVI, the vaccine alliance responsible for part covering the costs of childhood immunisation in low and middle income settings.

Can you explain your doctoral research through interpretive dance? The deadline for submissions to the 17th annual #DanceYourPhD competition is this week. Submit by 28 March for a chance to win $2000: scim.ag/4gKMnz9

Dr Snow was a leader in the development of modern anaesthetics, but the practice has much earlier roots. A 2nd century Chinese physician pioneer, Hua Tuo is imortalised in the below woodblock - offering to anaesthetise a wounded warlord (whilst playing Go) #historypublichealth

Each year the John Snow Society holds a 'Pumphandle Lecture' named to commemorate the removal of a Soho water pump handle during an 1854 cholera epidemic - following Snow's evidence. In 2024 we hosted Dr Swaminathan (ex- @who.int). 2025 Lecture details coming soon! www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Call for Nominations: The 2025 Paul Farmer Lectureship and Award for Global Health Equity @mcgill.ca www.mcgill.ca/spgh/about-u...

Happy #WorldWaterDay! Fetch yourself a big glass of the good stuff and take a look at the watery wonder which is Hamonshu (1903), a Japanese book of wave and ripple designs: publicdomainreview.org/collection/h...

One of the earliest examples of mapping cholera deaths in Rouen, France in 1833 by Dr Eugene-Clement Hellis. Dr John Snow built on these methods.

The John Snow Society is celebrating joining Bluesky and the 212th anniversary of Dr Snows birth with a one-time competition for new followers! See our postcard of a London cityline against a backdrop of a blue sky at night. For an exclusive prize, can you tell us what's interesting about this? 🧐

Our first post on Bluesky marks the 212th anniversary of the birth of Dr John Snow, celebrated physician, epidemiologist and anaesthetist! 🎂 #HappyBirthdayDrJohnSnow