
Summer Shorts #3 - Insulin Drama
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Aaron Burr's Water Company
Aaron burr's brother in law, a doctor by the name of joseph brown, came up with this plan to pipe cleaner water to new york city than the contaminated well water that everyone was drinking at the time. And so burr thought this was a great political thing that he could attach his name to. He also had some other plans, irons in the fire, that he thought he could mix into this. In total, about 35 hundred people died at a time when the city's population was only about 250 thousand. So it was a pretty bad outbreak. Non therewas another outbreak 17 years later, in 18 forty nine. It wasn't just an isolated incident
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