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Eastern European immigrants targeted as the carriers of typhus.

1892

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During the typhus epidemic in New York City, debates over emerging ideas of germ theory and public health are largely ignored as blame is pinned on Eastern European immigrants. This targeting will later be used to justify the immigration restriction laws of 1924.