Health 11 b
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- Walter Reed
- American bacteriologist, traced spread of yellow fever to mosquitoes
- botulism
- potentially fatal bacterial food poisoning
- yellow fever
- acute infectious disease transmitted through the bite of an infected mosquito, headaches, fever, dizziness, muscle aches, prostration
- salmonellosis
- inflammation of the intestines due tobacterial contamination cuased by spoiled food or water
- antiseptics
- substances used to prevent infection
- antisepsis
- a procedure which prevents pathogens from growing and multiplying
- prostration
- physical and/or mental exhaustion
- Anthrax
- fatal disease affecting both animal and human
- Robert Koch
- discovered bacteria responsible for anthrax and tuberculosis
- Robert Koch
- first to show that bacteria caused certain diseases. Studied anthrax.
- Louis Pasteur
- Frenchman, studied communicable human diseases, determined that certain diseases are caused by micro-organisms that invade the body
- Joseph Lister
- discovered antisepsis