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The Great Book Scare: When Readers Worried They Might Get Infected by Artsjournal

This scare, now mostly forgotten, was a frantic panic during the late 19th and early 20th centuries that contaminated books"particularly ones lent out from libraries"could spread deadly diseases. " Smithsonian

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 5:33pm on August 29, 2019 ☆ ⚑

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