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Lessons Learned from Past Public Health Battles

Lessons Learned from Past Public Health Battles

UW-Madison Historian Judith Walzer Leavitt discusses historical lessons for the current pandemic.

City’s Smallpox Quarantine Created a Furor

City’s Smallpox Quarantine Created a Furor

Back in the 1890s, Milwaukee’s clampdown on smallpox outbreak caused fear and fury.