The show begins with the use of inoculation, in the eighteenth century, and George Washington's dramatic decision to inoculate his troops during the Revolutionary War, amid rumors that the British were intentionally infecting rebel populations.
But, largely as a result of a mismanaged government inoculation campaign in the 1980s to eradicate bilharzia, another chronic disease widespread in Egypt at the time, the country's hepatitis C rate is four times higher than in any other country.
When Dr O'Brien gave the inoculation, she observed not only fewer symptoms of the cancer, but also an improvement in her patients' emotional health, vitality and general cognitive function.To find out what was going on, Dr Lowry turned to mice.
On display in the exhibition is the 1763 inoculation record (in Latin) of a foundling by the name of Augusta Jones.
Infectious illnesses are usually simpler to deal with than chronic ones, requiring inoculation campaigns rather than long-term care, changes of lifestyle and the uphill work of public education.
This experience, she says, proved to be "a powerful inoculation against the democratic process" for Mr Putin.
(These colonnades, now part of Coram's Fields children's park, are the only part of the original 18th-century property still standing today).Smallpox was a major cause of child mortality at the time and Mead instituted a massive programme of inoculation at the Foundling Hospital.
Some 15,000 emergency workers have been offered voluntary inoculation; most have turned up.
It adapts itself to new factors and new forces, and inoculation against one strain does not guarantee any immunity from the next one.
War in Congo means a generation growing up without inoculation or education and the rapid spread of AIDS, the camp-follower of war in Africa.
