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Disease
Color anatomical drawing of a mosquito

Our Oldest, Deadliest Foe

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Woodcut of well-dressed crowd and cow strapped to table

Smallpox and the Long Road to Eradication

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Illustration of rat climbing down a ship's mooring rope with a city in the distance

San Francisco’s Plague Years

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Jesse Gelsinger, 18, in an undated family photo

The Why: The Philadelphia Tragedy that Changed Gene Therapy
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Polio vaccine dropped on to sugar lump for child patient.

Book Club: The Story of the Polio Vaccine

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Vaccinating for polio in South Sudan, 2014.

Political Ills

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