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Epidemiological studies throughout history have provided useful information on disease processes and sometimes breakthroughs in medicine that have easily saved millions of lives. For example, the cholera epidemic in nineteenth-century London was nearly wiped out from the single-handed study of John Snow who showed that the death rate from cholera was much higher in the zone where a public water pump was used by the community. After disinfecting the water and pumping in chlorine, the outbreak quickly ended.
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de la Torre, J.C. (2016). Pharmaceuticals and Alzheimer’s. In: Alzheimer’s Turning Point. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34057-9_11
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