Cholera and Dr. John Snow Chapter 2

What did Dr. John Snow find out about Cholera

• It came from the Broad Street water pump

• It came from the miasma

• It was not as serious as once believed.

Who was patient Zero in the cholera epidemic

• Sara

• Francis

• John

• Henry

What was the miasma

• the smell

• the dirty water

• the cholera

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How did Florence Nightingale's emphasis on miasma positively impact the world?

• She sought after the bad odors and created a disinfectant that is still used today.

• She championed cleanliness and sunshine to cure disease

• She was one of the scientist who collected water samples from the Broad Street pump.

Identify the two investigators and explain how they contributed to the epidemic mystery?

• Whitehead gathered information from people about the disease. B) Dr. Snow  collected water samples and asked people where they got their water
  
  

• Harry and Dr. Sniff worked in

  Western Medicine. According to this theory, first proposed by doctors in ancient Greece, the human body contained four humors, or fluids

• Whitefield and Harold

  built their own dwellings and lived communally. But this wasn’t a culturally acceptable arrangement

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How do John Snow’s contributions to the Cholera epidemic benefit us today?

• He increases the risk of respiratory infections, heart disease and lung cancer.

• collected water samples and asked people where they got their water
  
  

• His map of the Soho cholera outbreak is still studied by students of epidemiology today.  John was the first to use maps to show how disease outbreaks are linked to risk factors in environment  and he systematically looked at outbreaks of disease by looking at patterns.

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