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New First Nations infection prevention and control course – course reviewers needed!
 Infection prevention and control is key to safe, quality care across Canada. Making sure your training fits the patients you are working with is essential. The Saint Elizabeth Foundation is calling for course reviewers to evaluate its new First Nations Infection Prevention and Control course. Now is your chance to help out!
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A window into the past
Mapping London’s Great Plague of 1665
We cannot prevent or control infection unless we know what is going on. In a fascinating infographic, The Guardian mapped the burials during a single week in August 1665, at the height of the Great Plague of London. Contrary to popular belief, even at the height of the plague year, Londoners buried their neighbours with respect for the bodies and beliefs of the dead.
 Daniel Defoe’s gripping, week-by-week A Journal of the Plague Year was based on the same bills of mortality (weekly mortality reports). It gives us the same picture of the capital city progressively being overtaken by disease.
IMAGE CREDIT [TOP]: John Dunstall, representations of the plague and its aftermath, 1666, taken from londonfictions.com
IMAGE CREDIT [BOTTOM]: John Dunstall, Title page of Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year, which he based on his archive of the bills of mortality published every week in the summer of 1665, taken from londonfictions.com
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