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define public health
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-promote health
-prevent disease -prolong life |
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epidemiology
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study of determinants, duration, and distribution of disease
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John Grount
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early epidemiologist
-focused on cholera initially |
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John Snow
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early epidemiologist
-discovered source of cholera was water contamination -methods are still used today |
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Daniel Salmon
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first US vet grad
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Theobald Smith
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Correlated Texas Cattle Fever with ticks
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beginning of west nile virus in NY
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-thought it was St. Louis encephalitis
-veterinarian disagreed -virus spread quickly due to wild reservoirs |
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Ebola outbreak in 1989
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-came from monkeys from the Philippines
-virus identified with EM -no humans got sick |
