Plagues of our past
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Cities Are Places of Innovation
Cities are a huge part of the story of human disease, because they bring people together. They were economic magnets or culturally exciting throughout most of our past - but infectious diseases thrive in cities. Technology and policy come together in the later nineteenth century to catalyze the riseof much, much cleaner cities.
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