“When reporting on epidemic diseases that primarily struck the poor in Upper Silesia in 1848, the famed German pathologist Rudolf Virchow observed: “it is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings in the daily shame of events.”82 The toleration of horrible situations that affect only the health of others is a phenomenon, sadly, that is still very much with us.”
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When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed
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