Pathogens live in us and on us at our expense, causing infectious disease. If enough people get sick,pathogens cause epidemics that can force enormous changes on societies. Disease can determine not only who lives and who dies but who wins and who loses, who gets wealthy and who stays poor, which ideas become popular and which ones wither away. Plagues are the true invisible hand, guiding our destiny.
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Voice of Youth Advocates honoree
CDC exhibition
