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Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues Steven Mintz and helps us understand thePioneer Science and the Great Plagues covers the century when infectious plagues anthrax, tuberculosis, tetanus, plague, smallpox, and polio were conquered, and details the important role that veterinary scientists played. The narrative is driven by astonishing events that centered on animal disease: the influenza pandemic of 1872, discovery of the causes of anthrax and tuberculosis in the 1880s, conquest of Texas cattle fever and then yellow fever,