Ebola And The Epidemics Of The Past

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Ebola and the Epidemics of the Past

Essay: Just a few generations ago, progress against infectious disease convinced Americans that modern medicine had won the battle against microbes, David Oshinsky writes. Why is the public so skeptical today?

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