This industrial city in central Massachusetts has had many nicknames through the years, including “the Heart of the Commonwealth” and “Wormtown.” Among them was this less-known medical moniker: “Hepatitisville.”
Worcester has endured several outbreaks of the liver-battering disease, including one that sidelined 90 members of a college football team in 1969.
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