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(2,710 posts) Thu Sep 4, 2014, 04:46 AM Sep 2014

Tainted Fruit

Tainted fruit was blamed for the cholera epidemic in New York in 1832. The city banned the sale of fruit for years. New Yorkers remained suspicious of fruit even after the ban was lifted.

Vincenzo Campi
The Fruit Seller. 1580

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