Excerpt:
This exhibition, on view from February 27 to September 6, 1999, tells stories about infectious disease. Some are personal and others scientific. But what they have in common are human disasters of shocking proportions. Our goal is to explain how a complex mix of ecology, evolution, and culture produce conditions in which disease-causing microbes—microscopic organisms that live in our environment—can thrive.
Annotation:
This site, related to the American Museum of Natural History's 1999 exhibit on Infectious Disease, contains a number of links to sites about infectious disease, a glossary of related terms, and several interactive, educational tolls for children.