Vaccines prevented many infectious diseases and reduced deaths.
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Topic 9.2 · c. 1900–present
Technological Advances and Limitations After 1900: Disease
Medical breakthroughs improved health, but diseases still spread across borders and access to care remained unequal.
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What to know
Medical breakthroughs improved health, but diseases still spread across borders and access to care remained unequal.
Antibiotics treated bacterial infections that had once been deadly.
HIV/AIDS revealed the limits of medical access and sparked global public-health responses.
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01 / Multiple choice · 3 questions
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Question 01
Which example fits this clue? This example prevented many infectious diseases and reduced deaths.
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Question 02
Which example fits this clue? This example treated bacterial infections that had once been deadly.
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Question 03
Which example fits this clue? This example revealed the limits of medical access and sparked global public-health responses.
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02 / Write with evidence
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Why did medical progress not end disease?
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- Use two examples from the review.
- Explain how the examples support your claim.
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Medical breakthroughs improved health, but diseases still spread across borders and access to care remained unequal. Vaccines prevented many infectious diseases and reduced deaths. Antibiotics treated bacterial infections that had once been deadly.
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vaccines
Vaccines prevented many infectious diseases and reduced deaths.
antibiotics
Antibiotics treated bacterial infections that had once been deadly.
HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS revealed the limits of medical access and sparked global public-health responses.
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