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Behind the Bastards

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The First Typhus Vaccine Did Not Work

The first typhus vaccine was developed in the seventies. But they did figure some other shet out, which we're going to talk about in a little bit. Not only did grunantall hire more former notses than any other pharmaseudical company, but they had a weird tendency to former noes who had been directly involved with forced labor and concentration camps. One of their first products was a pina cilin derivative, which proved to be massively toxic and was quickly pulled. They also marketed a tuberculosis cure that was completely ineffective. As the nine, ten 50 hit, grunata was still on the lookout for a big product, hit, something like lrli

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