TY - BOOK AU - Zaidatul Azmi Bt. Abdul Rahman TI - The Role of Water in the Causation and Prevention of Infectious Disease PY - 1984/// CY - Kuala Lumpur PB - Institute for Medical Research KW -  Communicable Disease Control KW -  Communicable diseases KW - Dissertations KW -  Waterborne Diseases KW - Prevention N1 - Diploma in Medical Microbiology, Institute for Medical Research 1983-1984; Seameo Tropmed Project Institute for Medical Research. Diploma in Medical Microbiology. 1983-1984; References N2 - Centuries before the germ theory of disease was established, there was an accepted relationship between impure water illness. There is reason to believe that Alexender the Great may have realised the danger of contaminated water since his troops were reported to have boiled their drinking water. Dr. John Snow's claasical epidemiological research in 1855 on several outbreaks of cholera correlated it to faecally contaminated water supplies in London UR - https://library.nih.gov.my/e-doc/flipbook/thesis/dmm/147-148/index.html UR - https://repository.nih.gov.my/handle/123456789/49 ER -