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Town of Leesburg
News Release
For Immediate Release
May 3, 2021
Media Contact:
Leah Kosin, Assistant Public Information Officer
lkosin@leesburgva.gov 703-771-2781
Virtual Lecture to Highlight Diseases and Their Historical
Effects
Leesburg, VA (May 3, 2021) – Andrew Jampoler will
present his virtual lecture “Disease in History” on
Wednesday May 19 at 1 p.m.
The current pandemic has forced us to relive and rethink
the impact of disease on history. Before the age of
modern medicine, lethal epidemics and fatal disease
shaped human history as much—arguably more—than
did geography, the acts of great men and women, and
the events of politics and wars.
Learn how plague, influenza, yellow fever, and small pox
(as well as the “great pox,” syphilis), and especially
cholera, powerfully changed the direction of time, as the
Covid-19 virus is doing again.
Pre-registration is required for this event. Please call 703-737-7195,
email balchlib@leesburgva.gov, or register online.
Andrew Jampoler is an alumnus of Columbia College and the School of International and Public
Affairs, both of Columbia University, in New York City, and of the US State Department Foreign
Service Institute’s School of Language Study. While in the US Navy, Andy served on the personal
staffs of the chief of naval operations, the secretary of defense, and the commander in chief of
the Pacific Fleet, and also on the ground in Vietnam. Jampoler has been researching and writing
non-fiction books for more than twenty years.
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