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Seems clear now that EBV causes enough trouble that we should think about trying to eradicate it if we can get a good vaccine. This will be horrendously expensive and difficult. But eradicating a disease has such unbounded benefits for humanity that we should try. By far the greatest thing medicine did last century, and possibly will ever do, was eradicate small pox.


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