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A faded quarantine card warned families to stay inside—but the danger was invisible. Discover how smallpox, cholera, yellow fever, an influenza reshaped Texas communities, from Spanish missions to early vaccination programs and the 1899 Laredo Smallpox Riot.

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National Park Service. “Mission San Juan.” San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. https://www.nps.gov/saan/planyourvisit/sanjuan.htm

Texas State Historical Association. “Epidemic Diseases.” Handbook of Texas Online. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/epidemic-diseases

Texas State Historical Association. “Laredo Smallpox Riot.” Handbook of Texas Online. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/laredo-smallpox-riot

Texas State Historical Association. “Public Health.” Handbook of Texas Online. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/public-health

Texas Medical Association. Mike Cox. “Frontier Medicine Texas Doctors Overcome Disease and Despair.” https://www.texmed.org/Template.aspx?id=2012

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