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books can carry smallpox?

An article from a 1912 Bulletin of the Medical Library Association on the disinfection of books.

In Bordeaux, several people were attacked by a feverish lumbago after having rearranged the library books of the Faculty of Medicine.
[thanks daniel]

Posted on 22Oct03 by jessamyn

The library at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary is now one of 13 libraries in the world to own a reproduction of Codex Vaticanus, considered one of the oldest surviving Greek manuscripts of the Bible. Apparently there are 450 copies of this book [original is at the Vatican] and only thirteen are in libraries. I guess you can get one too, for around 6K. [thanks brandon]