Editor’s note: This quiz was originally published in 2016 and has been updated.
Costumes have been inspired by infectious diseases for hundreds of years, way before trick-or-treating became an American Halloween tradition in the 1920s.Take this quiz to see how much you know about global disease costumes of the past and present:
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