• Question: If you could go back through time, into the past and change something doctors and scientists did to try to cure the plague, what would you do different?

    Asked by 492bdya52 to Andy, Duane, Giovanna, Katie, Theresia on 17 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Duane Mellor

      Duane Mellor answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      I think I would have tried to build cities with effective sewers in the middle ages, as this would control rats (so helping reduce the plague) then later reduce the pandemics of cholera

    • Photo: Andrew Philp

      Andrew Philp answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      Now that’s a great question. I guess changing hygiene and behaviour to prevent/reduce the spread of disease if that was possible. How about you?

    • Photo: Giovanna Bermano

      Giovanna Bermano answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      Great question….isolate people as the very first signs of disease to avoid spreading….and change belief that is not a punishment from the gods….

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