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For a world of emerging diseases, a revived program in microbiology
Three decades ago, it seemed that modern medicine had virtually eliminated many infectious diseases. Armed with antibiotics, vaccines and a sense of victory in the war against microbes, medical schools began to look at the discipline of microbiology in a different light, and in 1972 Yale joined others in disbanding its department. By the 1980s, however, such deadly microbes as HIV, Ebola, Marburg ...