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The Big Idea: How Commerce Spreads Contagion

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Oxford professor Mark Harrison, author of the new book Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease, tells us what governments are doing wrong in public health, and why the spread of diseases among humans is not even the most dangerous thing about free trade.

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