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Plague Nation has a grain of rice for every person living in the United Kingdom. That's 59,778,002 grains or 980 kg of rice. Plague Nation is a performance that takes statistics and makes them real. It takes numbers and gives them a size and a shape. It takes the abstract and makes it concrete. It makes it possible to see what is impossible to imagine Plague Nation displays statistics from a range of sources. Its main focus is infectious disease and vaccination. It hopes to show how vaccination programmes have helped to improve the health of the world but how even today infectious diseases remain the globe's biggest killers Plague Nation is a collaboration between theatre company Stan's Cafe and a number of schools. |
Every hour 83 people die of tuberculosis in the world
Every day 8200 people die of AIDS/HIV related illnesses.
The population of Birmingham is 977,087The population of Bristol is 380,600. |
 vaccination |
 epidemiology |
 infectious diseases |
 how diseases spread |
 3 diseases |
 some resources |
 feedback |
PLAGUE NATION has been made possible by a grant from THE WELLCOME TRUST through the PULSE initiative.