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Unit 9 – Cold War and Contemporary Europe
Topic 9.12
How did Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin in 1928 influence modern medicine?
It set the stage for the widespread use of antibiotics to combat infectious diseases.
It led to the eradication of all forms of bacterial infections across the globe.
It ended all research into vaccines as penicillin was seen as a cure-all.
It caused an immediate decline in global mortality rates within a year of discovery.
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