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Date1822
AuthorAnon.
ContributionFrench experts studied Yellow Fever outbreak in Barcelona.
ReferenceMcNeill
NotesConcluded no possibility of contact between victims, therefore not contagious. Major blow to germ theory. Gave ammunition to British liberals who opposed quarantine as being suppression of free trade. McNeill - p. 266.
CategoryMiscellany
Pathogen ClassGeneral

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