HSC Investigating Science Practice Questions - HSC Investigating Science (NSW Higher School Certificate, Year 12) Exam

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Which historical investigation demonstrated that cholera was a waterborne pathogen transmitted via contaminated water pumps rather than airborne miasma?

John Snow's spatial mapping of cholera deaths around the Broad Street pump in London (1854) Louis Pasteur's swan-necked flask experiment demonstrating biogenesis (1859) Ignaz Semmelweis's study on hand hygiene in maternity wards in Vienna (1847) Edward Jenner's inoculation of cowpox to prevent smallpox (1796)

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John Snow's spatial mapping of cholera deaths around the Broad Street pump in London (1854)

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