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\nKristin Watkins, a Ph.D. candidate in the history of medicine and infectious diseases, has always had a healthy respect for the flu.<\/p>\n

That regard resulted in her landing the cover illustration spot in the January issue of Academic Medicine with her pen and ink drawing of a bird speckled with biohazard markers. The title of the drawing?<\/p>\n

“In Flew Enza.”<\/p>\n

Inspiration for the illustration arose from a 2008 project Watkins coordinated that promoted cooperation between veterinarians, public health officials, researchers and health care professionals to explore personal protective measures in human health care vs. animal health care.<\/p>\n

The collaboration was “an incredibly eye-opening experience,” she said. <\/p>\n

Read Kristin Watkins’ “Artist’s Statement” in Academic Medicine<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

And, being an artist, she started doodling.<\/p>\n

Watkins has an entire series of images related to infectious diseases, including a corona virus, yellow fever and others. The bird image, she said, represents H5N1, colloquially called “bird flu.”<\/p>\n


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\n“In Flew Enza,” by Kristin Watkins<\/span>
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\n<\/TABLE>The art was included in an “Arts & Medicine” proposal that Watkins sent to the magazine. Editors told her the piece was not a good fit, but they wanted to use the “In Flew Enza” piece for their cover.<\/p>\n

“I went, ‘Yeah!'” Watkins said.<\/p>\n

On the heels of the first reported avian flu-related death in North America last week, Watkins is quick to talk about how influenza is underestimated — the flu pandemic of 1918, she pointed out, killed more people in three months than the Black Death did in 300 years.<\/p>\n

“My goal is to use art, theater, dance, music, comics, to teach about difficult issues in medicine,” she said. “I think infectious diseases and the protections — isolation and quarantine, barriers that we have to wear around our loved ones, like masks and gloves and gowns — make incredibly poignant subject matter.”<\/p>\n

People tend to downplay infectious diseases, she said. <\/p>\n

“Not sexually transmitted diseases or even HIV, which is its own bailiwick, really,” she said. “I’m thinking about contagious diseases — influenza, mumps, whooping cough — things that children could give to one another and that could potentially harm or threaten their lives.”<\/p>\n

This is an issue that educators need to start grappling with as antibiotic resistance rises and new research on diseases comes into play, she said. <\/p>\n

“We need to be better educating our medical practitioners in some of the ethical concerns and challenges of epidemic disease,” she said. <\/p>\n

“And I think one way to do that that’s really universal is images.”<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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