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Who halted a london epidemic by removing the handle on a public water pump thereby eliminating the mode of disease transmission?
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Who halted a london epidemic by removing the handle on a public water pump thereby eliminating the mode of disease transmission?

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John Snow

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Until a mother washed her baby's diaper in a town well in 1854 and triggered an epidemic that killed 616 people, British doctor John Snow couldn't persuade other doctors and scientists that cholera, a deadly disease, was spread when people drank contaminated water.

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