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What is the difference between the Miasma theory and the Contagion theory of epidemic disease?

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Posted by azunguze on August 25, 2010 at 11:34 PM and tagged with contagion, disease, miasma

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The difference between these two theories has to do with their ideas about how the diseases are contracted -- how people come to be sick with the disease.

The miasma theory of disease...

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Posted by pohnpei397 on August 25, 2010 at 11:38 PM

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