“Public Pathogens: Louisiana’s Historical Struggle With Disease”

LSU Special Collections presents an exhibition that explores and reveals Louisiana's response to historic diseases, from yellow fever, cholera, and typhoid, to influenza, HIV-AIDS, and COVID-19. The exhibition is broken into three parts—the first on Hansen's Disease, the second on COVID-19 and one Baton Rouge hospital's response via oral history, and the third on historic materials in the library's collection from the early nineteenth century through the 1970s. llib.lsu.edu.