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Though I was never a “Matrix” fan, this line always stayed with me. A contemporary version of “those who don’t learn history are doomed to repeat it”, it strikes a chord of being universally true. It certainly is for emerging diseases anyway, as evidenced by this 17th century painting: "Plague of London", 1665 [Granger] This is “Plague of London”, and I first saw it when I was 20 years old. It hangs in my office to this day. The heading, “Lord Have mercy on London”, refle

Two important things will happen this April (though I concede only one of them is important outside of our household): my eldest son will participate in his first science fair, and the anniversary of the Reagan Administration's first public acknowledgement of HIV and AIDSwill occur. Those two things seem completely unrelated, but in my world they are very tightly linked. My elementary school science fair project was originally titled "Germs", until my mother corrected me on