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“Continuation of the outbreak depended on the likelihood of encounters between people who were infectious and people who could be infected. This idea became known as the “mass action principle.” It was all about math. The same year, 1906, a Scottish physician named John Brownlee proposed an…” quote by David Quammen
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““Continuation of the outbreak depended on the likelihood of encounters between people who were infectious and people who could be infected. This idea became known as the “mass action principle.” It was all about math. The same year, 1906, a Scottish physician named John Brownlee proposed an alternate view, contrary to Hamer’s. Brownlee worked as a clinician and hospital administrator””

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