The eyes of the medical world are on Wuhan, China. Will the new coronavirus grow from epidemic to pandemic? It’s the stuff of health officials’ nightmares. At last word, nearly 2,000 people have been infected. More than 50 of them have died. That’s triggering fears of a deadly virus marching unrestrained across the globe.

But here’s the thing: It’s happened before. And it happened where you live.

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