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Four of the most lethal infectious diseases of our time and how we're overcoming them

  • Written by David Griffin, Advanced Trainee, Infectious Diseases and General Medicine, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
imageSpanish flu killed more people than the Great War that preceded it. And tuberculosis even more than that. from www.shutterstock.com.au

This is the first article in a four part series looking at how infectious diseases have influenced our culture and evolution, and how we, in turn, have influenced them.

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