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writing in the heady days of new antibiotics and immunizations, esteemed microbiologists Macfarlane Burnet and David white predicted in 1972that ''the most likely forecast about the future of infectious diseases is that it will very dull.''They acknowledge that there was always a risk of ''some wholly unexpected emergence of a new and dangerous infectious diseases, but nothing of the of the sort has marked the last fifty years.''Epidemics, it seemed, were of interest only to historians.
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