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2) In 1554, a cholera outbreak occurred in London. Cholera is a disease that causes intense diarrhea and can be fatal. At the time, many people believed that diseases were caused by "bad air. John Snow had another idea; he thought that cholera was caused by something in the environment where people lived. He went door to door and made a map showing households that had cholera] He found that most of the cases were near the Broad Street Water Pump. John Snow made a case that the water from the pump was making people sick and the pump was shut down. REASONING: If water was the cause of the sickness, then ...​

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The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Although there are no options attached, we can say the following.

If water was the cause of the sickness, then Dr. Snow had it well shutting down the Broad Street Water Pump.

Dr. John Snow was an English Obstetrician that tried to demonstrate in 1854 that cholera was the cause of many deaths in the water pump of Broad Street, Soho, London. At that time, scientists thought that the disease spread due to bad air, although Dr. Snow tried to prove that contaminated water was the cause. So the decision to shut down the pump was correct, although the London authority had its doubts.

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