Which would you guess had the biggest impact on the reduction in mortality from infectious diseases? Comment with your reasoning or to nominate an “other”.
Rationale is pretty simple: water-borne diseases are the O(N^2) infection vector with least limited N, particularly in city environments.
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Although if one wanted to geeksnipe me I suppose there is an argument that antibiotics save more countable lives due to being adopted by much larger base population which has routinely safe drinking water.
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Remember also that not all techniques are applicable to all diseases. Antibiotics only fight bacterial infections, not viruses. Vaccines don't exist for all diseases. Not all diseases are water- or insect-borne. Etc. And some diseases are more prevalent, deadly, or contagious
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