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Who Saved the Most Lives in History

3 points| ZeljkoS | 10 years ago |scienceheroes.com | reply

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[+] smoyer|10 years ago|reply
Infection used to be the potential killer behind any (otherwise) non-life-threatening injury. I'm a but surprised that only 82MM people are deemed to have been saved by antibiotics. Perhaps that number is for Penicillin only?