Contact tracing may have become part of the vernacular in these COVID-19 times, however, it has been part of public health practice for centuries, with the first recorded contact tracing being performed by physician Andrea Gratiolo in 1576 to trace the contacts of a symptomless woman accused of spreading the bubonic plague in northern Italy.
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