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Shared kitchens, lack of laundry & illiteracy were vectors of vulnerability in the 1915-16 Finnish typhoid epidemic. Collective action in the form of a centralized distribution of pure water levelled risks, according to Peltola, Saaritsa & Mikkola in a new SSH article. Open access. https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.34
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