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The fever and ague, diarrhea and dysentery had made dreadful havoc ... and the awful pictures of the tent town or encamping ground at Happy Valley are horrifying in the extreme. Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, "When disease racked Gold Rush San Francisco," 29 May 2020

The Bolt’s +200-mile range puts it beyond the nagging agues of range anxiety. Dan Neil, WSJ, "Chevy Bolt: Meet the First Practical, Mass-Market Electric Vehicle," 19 Oct. 2017

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