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Pandemics and Epidemics

This Topic Explorer set looks at pandemics and epidemics with specific reference to Aotearoa New Zealand, the impact on Māori communities and also the wider Pacific region. SCIS no: 1977944

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Bear Hunt - COVID-19 Pandemic

We're Not Scared, the great NZ Bear Hunt

During Covid-19 Level 4 and 3 lockdown teddy bears appeared in windows across New Zealand.

Pandemics and Epidemics: Introduction

Pandemics and Epidemics: Introduction

This Topic Explorer set looks at pandemics and epidemics with specific reference to Māori, Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific.

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand

By November 1918 most of New Zealand was experiencing the worst of the influenza pandemic. This story explores how the virus came to New Zealand, its impact and the national response by the New Zea...

Epidemics and Pandemics: Impact on Māori

Epidemics and Pandemics: Impact on Māori

Māori were affected by the epidemics and pandemics that have swept through Aotearoa more severely than other groups. This story examines the impact of European diseases on Māori and some of the peo...

Epidemics in Aotearoa New Zealand

Epidemics in Aotearoa New Zealand

This Topic Explorer set looks at epidemics in Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific over the last 200 or so years.

Epidemics and Pandemics: The Science

Epidemics and Pandemics: The Science

What are microorganisms, how do they spread and how does the human body defend itself against them? Examining the science of epidemics and pandemics, this story also looks at some of the influentia...

The COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 Pandemic is a world-wide viral pandemic that initiated a global crisis response in 2020 and will have repercussions for years to come.

Epidemics and Pandemics: The History

Epidemics and Pandemics: The History

Epidemics and pandemics have ravaged populations throughout the world for centuries. This story looks at their history, early beliefs about disease, personal stories from survivors, as well as dise...

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Samoa and the Wider Pacific

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Samoa and the Wider Pacific

New Zealand was responsible for the spread of the 1918 influenza epidemic to Samoa and the wider Pacific Islands. This story focuses on how this happened and the disastrous impact it had on the Pac...

A Wellington City Council Hydatids Eradication Bedford van with external dog cage compartments on a unknown street, probably Wellington City

Hydatids eradication van

Some serious diseases like smallpox and hydatids have been eradicated from New Zealand.

Nurses, 1912

Native health nurses

Native health nurses were introduced in 1911 and worked under very difficult conditions during epidemics & pandemics.

Smallpox vaccine production, 1970

Immunisation has a long history dating back as far as 200 BC with smallpox inoculations in China and India.

Carved wooden Maori cenotaph at Te Koura Marae, in memory of influenza epidemic

Epidemic memorial

Memorials around the country remind us of the huge loss of life among Māori as a result of introduced diseases.

PEACE AND THE Si FLU.'' The Patient: Peace be BLO'D��people sucking beer in town while 1 suck the thermometer in bed ! (Observer, 30 November 1918)

Peace and the flu

This man laments that he is in bed sucking on a thermometer instead of a beer to celebrate Armistice Day.

Woods' great peppermint cure, for coughs, colds and influenza [1940s?].

Curing diseases

Interesting products appeared on the market in the 1900s, claiming to cure many deadly infectious diseases.

Uncharted territory

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the WHO described the fight against Covid-19 as uncharted territory.

Robert Logan in Samoa

Colonel Robert Logan in Samoa on 30 August 1914

The New Zealand Administrator who allowed a diseased ship to dock in Samoa in 1918.

A report on flu stricken Tahiti

The crew from the steamer Salvor help flu-stricken natives and French settlers on the island of Papeete in Tahiti.

Health posters: pasteurised milk

Louis Pasteur invented pasteurisation in 1864

Louis Pasteur invented pasteurisation in 1864 - a process still in use today to kill harmful pathogens in milk.

Obelisk, Featherston Cemetery : digital image

The Obelisk at Featherston Cemetery

Headstones of soldiers who died at the camp lead to the obelisk that has names of those who died in the 1918 pandemic.

Lice

Lice can spread disease to humans. When pathogens move from animals to humans it is called zoonoses.

Heavy death toll in Fiji and Tonga

The plight of Fiji and Tonga after the arrival of the Talune.

Certificate of Thanks (for influenza workers)

Certificate of Thanks (for influenza workers)

This certificate was issued in thanks to people who worked during the influenza pandemic of 1918. Originating in the northern hemisphere, this strain of the flu killed an estimated 9000 New Zealand...

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