Celebrating 75 Years of ASTHO: Milestones in Public Health Leadership
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Nineteen years after John Snow deduced the famous link between London’s Broad Street water pump and a deadly cholera epidemic ravaging the English capital, a second consequential cholera outbreak erupted on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. The outbreak began in New Orleans in 1873 and spread along the major mercantile routes, killing hundreds of people.At the 1879 meeting of the Sanitary Council of the Mississippi Valley, with the recent epidemic still very much in mind, council
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