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Day Twenty-Six: The Shock

28ish Days Later

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The Importance of Shame in Menstrual Care

Toxic Shock Syndrome was not known until the late 1970s, and it wasn't associated with tampons until 1980. Healthy young women in the United States were becoming seriously ill and even dying from this rare illness. Sharra Vostral is a professor of history at Purdue University,. She's the author of Toxic Shock, a social history.

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