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How can a single sick person end up causing thousands of others to fall ill?

It sounds impossible: one person wakes up sniffly, and weeks later thousands are ill. Nobody sneezed on a thousand people. So how on earth can a single sick person set off an outbreak that reaches so many?

A stadium crowd seen from above, thousands upon thousands of people packed together, far too many to count
Photo: David E. Lucas · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

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How could just one sick person end up making thousands of others ill?

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