Infectious disease has been a deep-seated and inescapable feature of Australian life since the early days of settlement.
Over the last 235 years, the lives of many Australians have been swept up in outbreaks of infectious disease. Such events focused attention on the insecurity of everyday life and were a regular reminder of risk and the presence of death.
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