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Viral plagues such as smallpox, polio, measles, hepatitis B, rabies, and other once-terrifying scourges have only been beaten back by vaccines.
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.