about the bacteria that led to the downfall of man. Not a new disease, but rather one that had existed for millennia. Various forms of the same bacteria thrived on different continents, and the diseases they caused had many names—cat-scratch fever, trench fever, carrion’s disease. These maladies plagued humanity for centuries, but with transmission occurring primarily through biting insects, most never became household names. All that changed one summer thirty-some years ago. Mutated Strain, Antibiotic Resistant, Aerosol Transmission—those were the headlines of the day. After it struck, the
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