Note: There was a prior outbreak of the Andes variant Hantavirus reported in the New England Journal of Medicine 6 years ago. Mike Magee In 1948, General George Marshall, reflecting on the success of the World War II vaccine program, famously stated “We now have the means to eradicate infectious disease.” A frequent but untrue […]
Category: epidemics
Mike Magee This semester at the President’s College at the University of Hartford I’ve been teaching a course on “The History of Epidemics in America.” Of course, epidemic disease knows no geographic bounds, and so we have been addressing how microbes have changed the world we live in over many hundreds of years and across […]
