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Disease 1
People
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Science
Undergraduate 4
12/07/2008

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Pasteur
Definition
Discovered that exposure to weakened forms of cholera could protect chickens from full strength cholera
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Lister
Definition
Recognized that sterilizing his instruments would prevent infection in his patients
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Koch
Definition
Was the first person to definitively link a specific disease to a specific bacteria.
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Kipchak Khan Jenibeg
Definition
Threw dead bodies over the wall of a city he was besieging, thus starting the Black Death in Europe
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Flemming
Definition
Discovered a mold that could kill bacteria
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Florey and Chain
Definition
Isolated the chemical from penicillan, notatum, that had antibiotic properties
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John Barnes
Definition
Broad Street Cholera Outbreak in London
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Epidemiologist
Definition
He study of factors affecting the health and illness of populations
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