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Head to Soho in London and you might find an epidemiologist or two on a pilgrimage to Broadwick Street and the memorial to John Snow. There you'll find a public water pump with its handle...
Five hundred years ago, the spread of disease was largely constrained by the main mode of transportation of the time: people traveling on foot. An outbreak in one town would slowly ripple...
In the U.S. alone, 100,000 deaths annually are attributed to infections acquired at health care facilities such as hospitals, medical centres and nursing homes. In Australia, a 2008 study...