Video: the history of Irish scientists’ battles against disease

Published 13 August 2012

Here are four videos about the history of some of the major diseases to affect Ireland, and how Irish scientists worked to eradicate their effects.

The videos were recently produced by the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute in Dublin City University to mark Dublin’s year as City of Science.

1. The Famine and potato blight

2. Influenza in Ireland

3. Tuberculosis in Ireland

4. The Plague (The Black Death)

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