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”.
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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I’d write-in “plastics,” like clean water, the impact is hard to quantify, but think about infections prevented in hospitals due to sanitary packaging, disposable instruments, etc. Outside of hospitals, similar sanitary benefits, enables better med devices, e.g insulin pumps, etc
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