AS Science in Society

General quiz for the AS Science in Society exam. Including people questions, general questions (on topic), dates questions, formula questions.

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1. Puerperal fever regularly claimed the lives of women. At the time of Ignaz Semmelweis - how many women who gave to birth to a baby in European cities died?

  • 1 in 10
  • 1 in 4
  • 1 in 5
  • 1 in 6
1 of 8

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2. Cholera first gripped London in the

  • 1830s & 1840s
  • 1800s & 1810s
  • 1850s & 1860s

3. 'Miasma' is the name given to the original belief that diseases such as cholera were spread by bad air.

  • True
  • False

4. What did Robert Koch do around the 1860s?

  • discovered penicillin
  • devised techniques for growing cultures of bacteria on agar jelly & dyes
  • discovered how to stop bacteria growing on cultures

5. At the start of the 1990s, the WHO developed a treatment strategy for detecting and curing TB - which of the following were not a key element.

  • Good diet
  • Political commitment
  • Monitoring patients with a health worker
  • Microscopy, detecting the TB bacteria in saliva
  • Steady dug supplies
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John

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