History of science Q: it seems like ventilation / air quality eventually became a somewhat taboo topic in public health. When did this happen and why?https://twitter.com/mdc_martinus/status/1371128425763762187 …
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John Snow's research of epidemics in London coincided with the miasma era. It rebuts miasma theory. OTOH, refuting miasma does not take your straight to germ theory. Were most of the good PH interventions in the 1800s just intuitive responses?
I don’t think I’d say that. I’ve read a lot of primary documents about Yellow Fever—it’s an interest of mine—from that era and people were a lot more systematic in their thinking that we give them credit for, imo. That said, tools more limited.
That makes sense! I think that aerosol transmission has features in common with both. Infected people, who may not yet show signs of illness, spewing invisible micro-spittle into the air, carrying even smaller invisible pathogens into your nose. Still kinda like gremlins
For some people, only direct eyeball observation will do.
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