GEO 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cough, Francis Collins, Vaginal Ring
17 Sep 2017
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Geo 210 lecture 9 feb 17 2017: cholera, the most profane word, sexual, religious, disease. It is based on what individual cultures consider most offensive: cholera is a form of acute diarrhea. Infection of the intestine (bacterium vibrio cholera: cholera was catalogued by the athenians but it probably originated along the. Ganges rivers well before it was listed: a person may get cholera by drinking water or eating food contaminated with the cholera bacteria. In an epidemic the source of contamination is usually the feces of an infected person. 2: snow convinced the authorities to take action, a bill was introduce in parliament to build a sewage system beneath london. It was the biggest civil engineering project of the 19th century. The streets and parks of londong were dug up. : londons first modern, large-scale, urban sewage treatement system resulted in a. 15-year increase in life expectancy between the 1880s and the 1920s.
