Microbiology: An Introduction (13th Edition)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780134605180
Author: Gerard J. Tortora, Berdell R. Funke, Christine L. Case, Derek Weber, Warner Bair
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Chapter 14, Problem 2A
Florence Nightingale gathered the following data in 1855.
| Population Sampled | Deaths from Contagious Diseases |
| Englishmen (in general population) | 0.2% |
| English soldiers (in England) | 18.7% |
| English soldiers (in Crimean War) | 42.7% |
| English soldiers (in Crimean War) after Nightingale’s sanitary reforms | 2.2% |
Discuss how Nightingale used the three basic types of epidemiological investigation. The contagious diseases were primarily cholera and typhus; how are these diseases transmitted and prevented?
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