SAS 13 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Abdominal Pain, Lyme Disease, Mental Disorder
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1st person to see microorganisms discovered bacteria, protists, blood cells, sperm cells. Learned to grind lenses, made microscopes -> magnified over 200 times. 9/11 health and compensation act: provides medical car and compensation for those who are sick with world trade. Center illnesses, including first responders who came to new york from every state. Died of black lung disease contracted at ground zero respiratory problems cause by toxins from attack site: francis collins. Discovered the disease-causing mutations for cystic fibrosis: christaan eijkman. Won nobel prize for physiology and medicine in 1929. Measles vaccine: more atte(cid:374)uated e(cid:374)ders(cid:859) strai(cid:374, mmr vaccine, andrew wakefield. 1998 wrote study that linked mmr vaccine to autism: fraud changed and misreported results in his research. Medical license revoked but the study is still out there. Father of pasteurization: heating liquids to kill bacteria. Vaccination: original creators of rabies vaccine and cholera vaccine. Father of germ theory of disease: many diseases caused by microorganisms, george mcnew.
