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Good morning.
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We can continue with our subject of Asiatic cholera.
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And I thought we could perhaps frame that discussion
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by reminding you that in the 1990s the Nobel Prize winning microbiologist,
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Joseph Lederer, coined a term, "emerging diseases."
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He used it to describe infectious diseases that are previously unknown,
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at least as sources of human infection, and emerge, as it were,
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for the first time to infect human beings.
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These are diseases--
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in our own day we can think of Ebola or Lyme's disease,