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2. Bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics

  • True
  • False

3. Who told doctors to wash their hands in the 1840s?

  • Ignaz Semmelweis
  • Florence Nightingale
  • Ignaz Siemelmeis
  • William Harvey

4. Why did they tell doctors to do this?

  • As they believed they spread disease from a disease ward to a pregnancy ward which was killing many pregnant women
  • As more people who had diseases were dying quicker and so were doctors treating them
  • As they stank
  • As more babies were being born with diseases

5. (It's good to know but you might not need it!) In what year was the Germ theory discovered?

  • 1861
  • 1849
  • 1948
  • 1883
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