Fighting Disease - Past And Future

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  • Created on: 12-05-14 17:14
Who was Ignaz Semmelweis?
A disgraced doctor who lowered mortality rates by getting to doctors to wash their hands
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What did he discover without releasing or having evidence to prove?
That bacteria from dissections was being passed onto women when they gave birth
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Semmelweis discovered that antiseptic soap did what?
Lower mortality rates to women who we're giving birth
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What is on the rise?
The amount of diseased becoming resistant to antibiotics
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What's is a pandemic?
A disease which spreads across the world
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Viruses will always be more deadly than bacteria and fungi?
False
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What did he discover without releasing or having evidence to prove?

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