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Read this excerpt from Susan Butcher and the Iditarod Trail.
What is the best inference a reader can make from this
excerpt?
The hospital was a large, two-story building, but Dr. Welch
decided not to admit the diphtheria patients. He kept them
isolated in their homes and treated them there one at a time.
This would help contain the disease.
It was rare for someone to become infected with
diphtheria
The doctor did not know how to treat patients with
diphtheria.
The hospital did not have enough room for the diphtheria
patients
It was easy for diphtheria to pass from person to person,
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