John Snow, in Snow on Cholera

question 4

Multiple Choice

John Snow, in Snow on Cholera:

• A) was the father of modern biostatistics.
• B) established postulates for transmission of infectious disease.
• C) was an early epidemiologist who used natural experiments.
• D) argued that the environment was associated with diseases such as malaria.

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