Volume 4, Number 3—September 1998
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ICEID 1998
About Emerging Infectious Diseases
Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Brief Biographical Heritage
Table 1
Virchow's recommendations to the Prussian government regarding the typhus epidemic in Upper Silesia, 1848 (2)
| Political reform and local self-government, including local coordination of relief efforts |
|---|
| "Education, with its daughters, liberty and prosperity" (3) |
| Economic reform |
| Agricultural reforms, including development of cooperatives |
| Building of roads |
| Acceptance of Polish as an official language (while most Silesians spoke Polish, nearly all the physicians and school teachers assigned by the central government spoke only German) |
| Separation of church and state (he criticized the Catholic hierarchy) (4) |
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