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When New York’s ‘Badly Learned’ Epidemic Lesson Led to a Second Lethal Outbreak

STUPID THEN AND NOW

A proper accounting of the city’s typhoid outbreaks could have prevented years of sickness and death, diligent researchers finally showed. Is that history repeating now?

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