Flashcards
Fighting disease- past and future
Cards in this deck (5)
- 1What did Semmelweis tell doctors, who were touching dead bodies, to do before delivering a baby?To wash their hands
- 2What did Semmelweis' proposal do to death rates and why?They decreased as the anti-septic solution killed bacteria on the doctors hands
- 3Why did the number of deaths in the maternal ward increase when Semmelweis left the hospital?Because his bacteria theorem wasn't proved
- 4What has an overuse of antibiotics done?People are more susceptible to develop antibiotic-resistance strains
- 5What causes an epidemic?A new disease that no one is immune against and so it rapidly spreads