ABSTRACT
John Snow’s famous map showing the spatial relationship between water-pump locations and cholera cases during an 1854 disease outbreak in London has been the subject of textbook chapters, mass-market paperbacks and documentaries. In creating a map of the relationship between the location of cholera cases and water sources, Snow demonstrated the interconnectedness of populations, environmental phenomena and infectious diseases. This map captures the synergy between studies of geography and infectious disease: space and place structure infectious disease transmission, prevalence and vulnerability, and infectious diseases, in turn, affect how people interact with and navigate their environment.
