The conquest of infectious disease is the greatest triumph of modern medicine. What were these diseases, what techniques did we use against them, and how do they relate to each other?https://rootsofprogress.org/weapons-against-infectious-disease …
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I'd definitely put genomics on my shortlist. Diagnostic technologies probably deserve a spot. The wide availability and mass distribution infrastructure for pharmaceuticals is certainly a huge step up from snake oil salesmen of bygone days. Probably a couple other candidates.
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And if course, they all work in tandem. Solving smallpox and polio was astoundingly impactful, but without a way to accurately diagnose the correct symptoms, manufacture the vaccines, and distribute them... It would have been a much slower march to modernity.
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