The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on February 9, 2006
The European Journal of Public Health 2006 16(2):117; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl020
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Famine, Turks, and Plague: impressions from Graz
Johan P. Mackenbach** Correspondence: Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands, e-mail: j.mackenbach@erasmusmc.nl
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In November 2005 the European Public Health Association had its yearly meeting in Graz, a nicely renovated city in the south-eastern part of Austria, not far from its border with Slovenia and Croatia. On the South wall of the local cathedral, one can still see a famous painting called the Gottesplagenbild. This fresco commemorates the three Plagues of God which afflicted Graz in