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Stuff You Missed in History Class
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The First Effective Treatment for Diphtheria
The first effective treatment for diphtheria was antitoxin, which was developed in the 18 nineties. Emil von bering won the nobel prize for this discovery in 19 o one. The native alaskan enupiat people had lived in northern alaska for thousands of years. And the prospectors from europe and other parts of north america just flooded to the area during a gold rush and the town's population just ted.
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