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A plague of ignorance

I offer, here, a few words of history that were overlooked when you were in school.

Diseases have been master killers throughout human history. There was no defense against the misery, death, and sorrow until modern medical science developed vaccines, antibacterial medicines, and other methods to prevent or treat diseases.

Historian William Manchester reports that during the Middle Ages “… half th...

 

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