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And each one has stories to share of Juan’s callous, landowning father, who wreaked havoc through cruelty and violence and then left the town to perish.

Nerve endings soak up this toxin, drawing it into the brain and spinal cord where it wreaks havoc on interneurons.

Whereas having more genetic diversity in a population can mean diversity in immune strengths, so a single illness is less likely to wreak widespread havoc.