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“The positive result came out only after the USDA’s inspector general required British tests that the USDA had said were unnecessary.”
― Michael B.A. Oldstone, Viruses, Plagues, and History

“Clearly, economic and political considerations have been more important to those in power and responsible for decisions in business and in government than the health of the public at large.”
― Michael B.A. Oldstone, Viruses, Plagues, and History

“By Amherst’s direction, hostile Indian tribes were provided with blankets contaminated with smallpox: “Could it not be contrived to send the smallpox among those disaffected tribes of Indians? We must, on this occasion, use every stratagem in our power to reduce them” (14).”
― Michael B.A. Oldstone, Viruses, Plagues, and History

“In the end, the splendor of human history is not in wars won, dynasties formed, or financial empires built, but in improvement of the human condition.”
― Michael B.A. Oldstone, Viruses, Plagues, and History