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With measles on the rise, what we can learn from past epidemics

podcast March 26, 2025


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As the U.S. health system grapples with new outbreaks and the risk of old diseases making a comeback, we’re looking to the past to inform how people in marginalized communities can prepare themselves for how the current administration might handle an epidemic. On this episode, a conversation with historian and author Edna Bonhomme, about her latest book A History of the World in Six Plagues.

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