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Professor Peter Millican makes it to the nineteenth century to discuss the achievements of John Snow
- a man who either played a central role in the history of epidemiology, or was just one of many trying to tackle that century's foremost threat; cholera. Peter discusses Snow's role, water pump handles, and how we may very well still be experiencing this devastating pandemic today.

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Series
Futuremakers
People
Peter Millican
Claas Kirchhelle
Brian Angus
Blanche Oguti
Keywords
history
pandemics
smallpox
Plague
cholera
Black Death
hiv
aids
Spanish flu
Russian flu
ebola
oxford university
oxford
Peter Millican
epidemics
disease
Health
Medicine
Covid
coronavirus
Covid-19
Department: Oxford University Development Office
Date Added: 14/01/2021
Duration: 00:38:08

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