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Think of what it might have been like when 30 to 90 percent of your friends and family died, because that was the world before vaccines. Ask the Aztecs and Incas whether or not they would have liked to have vaccines available to them. Oh, wait, you can’t, they’re dead. Vaccination is one of the best things that has happened to civilization. Empires toppled like sandcastles in the wake of diseases we do not give a second thought to today. If taking a moment to elaborate on that point will make this book unpopular with a large group of antivaxxers, that’s okay. This feels like a good hill to die ...more
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
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