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Flashcards by Adam Collinge, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Adam Collinge
over 10 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What did Semmelweis tell doctors, who were touching dead bodies, to do before delivering a baby? | To wash their hands |
| What did Semmelweis' proposal do to death rates and why? | They decreased as the anti-septic solution killed bacteria on the doctors hands |
| Why did the number of deaths in the maternal ward increase when Semmelweis left the hospital? | Because his bacteria theorem wasn't proved |
| What has an overuse of antibiotics done? | People are more susceptible to develop antibiotic-resistance strains |
| What causes an epidemic? | A new disease that no one is immune against and so it rapidly spreads |
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