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Concepts of Health and Illness: Activity 4

Activity 4: The Effectiveness of Biomedicine in the care of infectious diseases

From the data set out in the two figures below, what can you deduce concerning the factors responsible for the significant reduction in deaths from Respiratory Tuberculosis and Whooping Cough over the course of the 19^th and 20^th centuries ?

Respiratory Tuberculosis

Whooping Cough

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