Infectious Diseases

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    Paganism is infectious—more infectious than diphtheria or piety....
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious—that is, a disease not understood—in an era in which medicine’s central premise is that all diseases can be cured.
    Susan Sontag (b. 1933)