Who first demonstrated that a bacterium causes a plant disease?
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Who first demonstrated that a bacterium causes a plant disease?
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In what year did John Snow remove the handle of the Broad Street pump?
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1854
What was the first human disease proven to be caused by a virus?
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Yellow fever
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