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Diseases from animals have been, will still be a menace to human beings

In October 2007, the National Geographic magazine wrote that “when a bad new disease catches hold, one that manages to be transmissible from person to person by a handshake, kiss or a sneeze, it might easily circle the world and kill millions of people before science can find a way to control it.”

The article was titled Deadly Contact. We are now in the midst of the very thing predicted by that article.

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