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1. 1. Contagion

   How Commerce Has Spread Disease

   

   A global history of how commerce, travel, and war have spread infectious disease, tracing cases from medieval plagues to influenza and SARS and the evolving responses—quarantines, port controls, and international health regulations. It shows how public health measures were driven not only by science but also by economic interests, geopolitics, and prejudice, often producing inequality and unintended consequences, while also laying foundations for modern disease control in an increasingly connected world.