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microbiology; epidemiology

Last updated 1:57 AM on 8/27/26
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epidemiology

where and when diseases occur and how transmitted

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epidemiologists

determine etiology, identify important factors concerning spread, develop methods for control, assemble data and graphs to outline incidence

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john snow

1848; mapped occurrence of cholera in London

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ignaz semmelweis

1847; showed that handwashing decreased incidence of peurperal sepsis (childbed fever)

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florence nightingale

1858; showed that improved sanitation decreased incidence of epidemic typhus