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Mar 05, 2019

Mar 05, 2019

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Jul 21, 2008

Jul 21, 2008

More efforts look outside the box for outbreak signals

Maryn McKenna
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Jul 21, 2008

(CIDRAP News) – In the history of infectious diseases, coincidence plays an extraordinary role. In 1706, Cotton Mather purchased a slave named Onesimus who happened to come from a tribe that practiced variolation, and so smallpox prevention was introduced to North America.

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