Before there was Jon Snow, King of the North, there was a real-life hero of the same name. Back in 1854, a Dr. John Snow made a medical breakthrough that earned him the title "The Father of ...
As a tidal wave of cholera rolled across Asia, Africa and Europe, the Tribune reported on Dec. 14, 1853, that the dreaded disease had reached the East Coast. Its victims were immigrants who died ...
Snow's map led him to the source of a London cholera outbreak in 1854 Image: Wikimedia Commons I started reading about cholera over the weekend after hearing that health officials had confirmed ...
A MEMORIAL is to be built to one of the region’s famous sons, in the street where he was born. York Civic Trust has been granted planning permission to put up a memorial to Dr John Snow in North ...
Scientists have long known that cholera is caused by a bacterium transmitted through food or water. But where does the bacterium live between epidemics, and what dictates the timing of new outbreaks?
Most infectious disease researchers are familiar with the story of how Dr. John Snow tracked a devastating cholera outbreak in London in 1854. By marking the houses impacted by cholera on a map, he ...
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