Smallpox

The metal truss bridge served as the sole entry point to an "isolation island" for smallpox outbreaks throughout the 1870s and early 1940s.

This family cemetery is a reminder of a smallpox outbreak in late-19th-century Texas.

These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.

Hidden among popular Sydney golf courses is a little remembered graveyard populated by smallpox victims.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.