Epidemics
- Cholera Online, 1817-1900: National Library of Medicine – More than 500 reports, studies, petitions, and other documents regarding cholera published around the world in the 19th century
- Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics: Harvard University Library Open Collections Program – Contains digitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts—a total of more than 500,000 pages—many of which contain visual materials, such as plates, engravings, maps, charts, broadsides, and other illustrations which document the history of medicine and epidemiology
- Database from the Global Project on the History of Leprosy – Archives of documents detailing the history of leprosy
- In Their Own Words: NIH Researchers Recall the Early Years of AIDS: National Institutes of Health Office of History – Images, documents, and oral history interview transcripts documenting the early years of the HIV/AIDS pandemic
- Japanese Woodblock Print Collection: UCSF – This collection of Japanese woodblock prints illustrates a wide variety of health-related topics, providing a window into traditional Japanese attitudes toward illness, the human body, women, religion, and the West
- John Snow Archive and Research Companion – The writings, publications, and presentations of English physician and epidemiologist, John Snow
- John Snow: UCLA Department of Epidemiology – This website dedicated to the life of English physician and epidemiologist John Snow contains John Snow’s writings as well as epidemiological maps, including Snow’s map of the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak
- London’s Pulse: Medical Officer of Health Reports, 1848-1972: Wellcome Digital Collections – More than 5,500 Medical Officer of Health Reports from the Greater London area
- Maps in Script and Print: Bodleian Libraries – 362 maps from as far back as the 15thcentury
- Plague: Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé – 77 documents including essays, treatises, and historical accounts from as early as the 15th century regarding the plague
- SARS Commission: Archives of Ontario – The public website of the SARS Commission, an inquiry into the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
- Walkerton Inquiry: Archives of Ontario – The public website of the inquiry into the May 2000 outbreak of E. coli in Walkerton, Ontario
- World Health Organization Historical Collection – Contains rare books on malaria, plague, smallpox, and epidemiology, and documents relating to the history of the WHO and other international health organizations such as the League of Nations Health Organization