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The world's last remaining pockets of smallpox had hardly been wiped out when a series of baffling new illnesses-Legionnaires' disease, toxic shock syndrome, and, most recently, AIDS (acquired immune defi- ciency syndrome)-seemed to materialize out of nowhere.
Most of these afflictions are actually old...