Patient Zero: Chapter 2 - Cholera

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Who was Patient Zero in the Soho Cholera Outbreak of 1854?

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Frances Lewis

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True or False: Cesspools are fresh water pools used for cooling off in summertime.

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False

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True or False: Summer diarrhea wasn't unusual for children in hot weather.

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True

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True or False: The cure for cholera is clean water.

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True

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True or False: John Snow believed that cholera was caused by miasma.

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False

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True or False: Henry Whitehead was an ally to John Snow from the very beginning.

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False

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Who is known as the father of epidemiology?

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John Snow

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True or False: John Snow's method of going door to door in an area of an epidemic is now called shoe-leather epidemiology.

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True

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People believed Cholera came from...

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Poisoned air (miasma)

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How did John Snow collect his data about the cause of the cholera outbreak?

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He walked door to door every night talking to people