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The disease detectives

a Facebook friend of Dr Daniel Pastula’s around 2014, you might have started to wish you’d gone to medical school. In one photo he posted, he was drinking a frozen cocktail on an island in Micronesia called Yap, where giant stones were once used as money. In another, he was wearing sunglasses on the beach in Fiji. At the time, Pastula was an officer in the Centers for

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