How a Dirty Diaper Killed 500 People and Started an Outbreak


A cholera outbreak devastated London. Where did it start, how did it spread so quickly, and why was a brewery able to avoid the pandemic? Let’s get into it.

Sources:

[London’s Great Stink]
https://www.npr.org/2015/03/12/392332…
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/…

[What is Cholera?]
https://www.cdc.gov/cholera/general/i…
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sh…
https://travel.gc.ca/travelling/healt…

[John Snow’s Investigation]
https://bit.ly/3iTvYwq
https://www.historyanswers.co.uk/peop…
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/1859m…
https://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/snow…
https://www.britannica.com/biography/…
https://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/broa…
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/i…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic…
https://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/deat…

[How did the Brewery Avoid Cholera?]
https://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/fath…
https://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/whit…
http://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcren…

[Other Sources]

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