Until May 19th, 2019 the exhibition Mapping Contagion: Representing Infectious Disease in New York City can be visited at the New York Public Library. 

The show embarnices more than a century of efforts for representing cartographically the distribution and development of infectious diseases in New York, starting by the maps of Valentine Seaman related to yellow fever in 1795 and continuing with different propositions of visualization with data about cholera epidemic, pneumonia, sexual transmission diseases, tuberculosis, etc. 

The map collection is complemented with different graphic material of each epoch to contextualize the social and cultural impact of diseases.