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Cover of the October 2002 Centers for Disease Control publication Emerging Infectious Diseases. It portrays the national sentiment at the time that something as seemingly benign as getting a letter in the mail is potentially life threatening.
Courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
