Videos
Typhoid is an old disease that continues to cause death and sickness around the world. Watch our critically-acclaimed animations to learn about the history of the disease and its spread, how typhoid control has evolved, and how vaccines, sanitation, and antibiotics work.
Alive, Alive Oh
(Credit: Concept & Script by Claas Kirchhelle & Emily Webster. Design by Ben Leighton)
The ballad of ‘sweet’ Molly Malone, who sells shellfish, is Dublin’s unofficial anthem. But what is the link with typhoid?
The Adventures of Alice in Typhoidland
(Credit: Concept & Script by Claas Kirchhelle & Samantha Vanderslott. Design by Ben Leighton)
On a golden afternoon in 1864, Alice Liddell went on a magical tour. Whilst being rowed in a boat, she heard a story about a rabbit in a nice coat. But this is not the story of the trip that led to Wonderland. Glide with us on a murky ride as we journey down the sewer hole into Oxford’s underside – there is much to see in typhoidland…
The Tragic Tale of Mary Mallon
(Credit: Concept & Script by Samantha Vanderslott & Claas Kirchhelle. Design by Ben Leighton)
The most (in)famous healthy carrier of typhoid fever through foodborne transmission was Mary Mallon who became known as ‘Typhoid Mary’.
Antibiotics and Antimicrobial Resistance
(Credit: Concept & Script by Claas Kirchhelle & Emily Webster. Design by Ben Leighton)
Resistance is inevitable…
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – which causes drug-resistant infections – is a danger to us all. It increases the risk of diseases spreading, serious illnesses and death. Watch our new animation to find out more about AMR’s history, unequal impacts, and what we can all do to tackle it.
Typhoid Interviews.
TYPHOID NOW.
(Credit: Interview by Claas Kirchhelle. Filming by Real Smart Media)
What are the major health threats facing Dubliners today? Listen to three of Ireland’s leading public health experts discuss infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance and climate change, and whether we are doing enough to prepare for these threats.
MICROBIAL ENVIRONMENTS.
(Credit: Interview by Claas Kirchhelle. Filming by Real Smart Media).
Professor Wim Meijer (UCD) discusses the relationship between microbial environments and Irish public health in detail.
TYPHOID SWALLOWERS.
(Credit: Interview by Samantha Vanderslott & Claas Kirchhelle. Filming by Gold Filling Records)
In 2017, about 100 participants in the City of Oxford, UK drank live typhoid bacteria to test how well a new vaccine worked. Here is the story of two of the trial volunteers.
TYPHI’S JOURNEY
(Credit: Artwork by Eliza Wolfson. Curation by Claas Kirchhelle & Carly Collier. Animation by Ben Leighton)
Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi is the bacterial cause of typhoid. Follow S. Typhi on its lethal odyssey through the human gut into the bloodstream and back into the environment.
SANITATION & HYGIENE IN OXFORD
1850-1887
(Credit: Concept & Script by Samantha Vanderslott & Claas Kirchhelle. Design by Ben Leighton)
Poor drainage and sewers Oxford in 1850 meant that low-lying parts of Oxford were described as “a swamp converted into a cesspool”.
Watch our animation and interactive timeline to see how enteric fever rates declined as a result of new sanitary infrastructure in Victorian Oxford.
CELL FACTORY
(Credit: Concept & Script by Dr Sean Elias. Design by Ben Leighton. Developed in collaboration with Typhoidland (Dr Samantha Vanderslott) and The Vaccine Knowledge Project (Dr Tonia Thomas). Voiceover: Tom Wilkinson and Music: Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio).
Ever wondered what happens inside your cells when you are infected with a virus? Or wondered how the new COVID-19 vaccines work?
The answer to both of these questions can be found in how our cells receive instructions to make proteins. Actually, your cells are a bit like factories…
