Plagues of our past
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Hookworms and Other Worm Diseases
"We just get so obsessed with the plague and the big respyratory infections that they cannot get left out," he says. "Even some of these diseases like hookworm and yellow fever and cistosmiasis and lymphatic phloriasis that are really important human diseases, they just don't have the same celebrity." As a historian of disease, was covet 19 inevitable? And do you think we'll have future pandemics as if something we should be getting used to?
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