Why Did Dr

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Multiple Choice

Why did Dr. Semmelweiss think that that improved ventilation at the hospital might help decrease incidence of childbed fever?

• A) Everyone does better in fresh air.
• B) Increased oxygen levels tend to decrease incidence of infection in general.
• C) Miasma, a type of fly known to transmit disease, are attracted to bad odors and better ventilation might eliminate those.
• D) Improved ventilation would more quickly remove miasma, or toxic vapors thought to be exhaled by sick people.
• E) Diseases were thought to be transmitted by miasma, or sweat, so improved ventilation might cool patients, minimizing sweating.

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