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Salmonella's Outbreak: A Short Story
It was a cold autumn day in New York. Usually it’s pretty calm downtown, but today was slightly out of the ordinary. Rumors of several cases of Salmonella had been going around but nobody really took it serious because medical professionals never confirmed it. Everyone knows that around fall time the seasonal flu and common colds go around but they’re not that serious because they have vaccines. Over the next 2 weeks more and more cases started popping up and were confirmed by doctors. Salmonella doesn’t have a vaccine, so the city of new york declared an outbreak. When things started to get progressively worse the CDC and scientists started to get involved. By a month, 30 cases and 5 deaths. At this point people started to get worried and
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