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Jeremy A. Greene, MD, PhD, is William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine and Director of Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He practices medicine at East Baltimore Medical Center. His most recent book is Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine.
History shows that outbreaks rarely have tidy conclusions.
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