STAT+: A journey to witness China’s biotech boom up close

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I am newly enamored with Hans Zinsser, a Harvard bacteriologist who in 1935 wrote “Rats, Lice and History,” a rather charming “biography” of typhus. Got it for a buck at an estate sale.

Favorite line: “there is no arsphenamin for the psychic treponema” — which, in context, basically means, “pretension has no cure.”

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