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From WILL - Afternoon Magazine - April 14, 2009

Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu

With Philip Alcabes (Associate Professor, Urban Public Health, Hunter College School of Health Sciences)

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Categories: Health, Public Health
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