Modern medicine had nothing to do with ending scarlet fever or any of the other baby killers of previous centuries. Clean water did. This has been proven over and over again min third-world shitholes with high infant mortality rates. When provided with clean water, childhood mortality plummets. Then people like Bill Gates go in there, vaccinate all the children and mortality skyrockets again. Source: any public health textbook.
Modern medicine had nothing to do with ending scarlet fever or any of the other baby killers of previous centuries. Clean water did. This has been proven over and over again min third-world shitholes with high infant mortality rates. When provided with clean water, childhood mortality plummets. Then people like Bill Gates go in there, vaccinate all the children and mortality skyrockets again. Source: any public health textbook.