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Who'd have thought that Catherine the Great's husband's murder was passed off as a death due to haemorrhoids!
Well-researched and fascinating especially as the book stays faithfully with the focus of the first inoculations which then led to the eradication of a virus that killed a sixth of all it attacked. Thoroughly absorbing.
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