- ...that in the name of science, American nurse Clara Maass (pictured) volunteered to be bitten by yellow fever-carrying mosquitoes seven times, caught the disease twice, and ultimately died from it?
- ...that obesity, Alzheimer's disease and cancer have been associated with infectious pathogens?
- ...that the village of Cellardyke in Fife, Scotland, is the site of the first confirmed case of H5N1 avian flu in the United Kingdom?
- ...that Australian Edward Both invented the Both respirator, an iron lung made from plywood, to fight a polio epidemic in 1937?
- ...that the award-winning film Frank's Cock is split into quadrants to symbolise the "fragmentation of the body" experienced by those with AIDS?