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Fox News Commentator Says Migrants Are Carrying Smallpox, a Disease Eradicated in 1980

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‘They’re coming in with diseases such as smallpox and leprosy and TB [tuberculosis] that are going to infect our people in the United States.’

Tanya Basu 

Senior Editor, Science

Tracy Connor
Tanya Basu

Tanya Basu

Senior Editor, Science

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Tracy Connor

Tracy Connor

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