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It seems that Iceland provides the best database in the world for trying to isolate genes responsible for such scourges as schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, adult-onset diabetes and stroke.
While Franklin Roosevelt was "tragically unwary of the new global menace from the left," Churchill spearheaded the opposition to the "twin scourges" of the century--Nazism and communism.
Viral plagues such as smallpox, polio, measles, hepatitis B, rabies, and other once-terrifying scourges have only been beaten back by vaccines.