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thoughts on historic infectious disease

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Microbiology

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  • Yersinia etymology
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Public Health

  • What is the Chain of Infection?
  • Chain of Infection for the Plague
  • Cholera’s Chain of Infection
  • Influenza Pandemics: 1510-2010

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  • Lincoln’s Illness at Gettysburg
  • Federal Mortality Census, 1850-1880
  • Malaria and the Boy Pharaoh

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  • Contagions Round-up 22: Unusual Pathologies & Prevention Schemes
  • A Flock of Plague Doctors
  • Primary Pneumonic Plague Transmission in the USA, 1900-2009

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