Tuesday, December 20, 2011

The Ghost Map

Take a couple million people crammed into a something on the order of ten square miles. 

During the hot summer of 1854 London was literally wallowing in its own shit.  

It had become the perfect breeding ground for a disease that nobody understood or has a cure for.  And it lead to one of the most horrific epidemics since the plague.

This is a story about how this event changes science and urban sanitation forever.

Learn more about it here.

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