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Higher Animals with Michael Specter
Revisionist History
The Last Great Smallpox Scare in the United States
In 1947, someone came to New York City carrying smallpox. And a certain higher animals is essentially a book about this revolution. There was a legitimate fear in the lifetime of my mom and your mom that New York City could have been wiped out by one of the scariest epidemics in human history. The chapter we're going to play for you is about what happened next.
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