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people approached disease,
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and later on this new conceptual framework to use for
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tracking disease and trying to prevent it
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onto the traditional medical kind of an approach.
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When we think about the major public health victories,
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there are many, many diseases that used to ravage the world
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that just aren't present at all anymore,
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or present in very low numbers.
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Many people believe
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that medical advances are responsible for those phenomenon,
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and to some extent they are,
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the use of antibiotics for example was a major breakthrough