Disease and infection
What Disease and infection means in History B Schools History Project GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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Beliefs about its cause included punishment from God, miasma (bad air) or astrological alignments, and responses were rooted in these medieval beliefs.
Cholera struck Britain in 1831 with a high mortality rate and an unknown cause, and was shown by Dr John Snow to be waterborne.
Topics that use Disease and infection
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- Environmental pollution
- Epidemic disease management
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