HLTB21H3 Lecture Notes - Third Plague Pandemic, Diarrhea, Course Evaluation
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Course evaluation will be coming out son. History (until the 19th century: the miasmatists (pettenkofer 1818-1901) He refused to believe in the germ theory. Drank a vial of bacteria contaminated water (he asked it from robert koch) Disease caused by bad vapours" (= miasmas) Factor in the air and a factor in the soil; and there"s some reaction when these two factors mix and this is what causes the disease. These people were seen as social and happier and better basically: contagionists. This theory was announced by pasteur in 1862 for the first time. Main people = koch and hansen (the discoverer of the pathogen of leprosy) Disease spread from person by an infectious agent. People viewed this people as anti-social and irresponsible since their perspective could change the social structure. ; during this time koch isolated the cholera: sixth pandemic: 1899-1923; missed the western hemisphere for the same reasons as above, seventh pandemic: 1961 - ongoing, series of epidemics:
