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Asbestosis is a lung disease that is caused by inhaling asbestos, a mineral that was once used as insulation and fire retardant in building materials. Which best describes abestosis?
It disproves spontaneous generation.
It offers supporting evidence regarding miasma.
Its transmission cannot be studied using the germ theory of disease.
Its transmission can be studied using the germ theory of disease.
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"Its transmission cannot be studied using the germ theory of disease."
Explanation: asbestosis is a noninfectious, occupational/environmental disease caused by inhaled mineral fibers, not by microbes, so it does not spread via pathogens and is studied by toxicology and exposure/epidemiology rather than germ theory.
Explanation: asbestosis is a noninfectious, occupational/environmental disease caused by inhaled mineral fibers, not by microbes, so it does not spread via pathogens and is studied by toxicology and exposure/epidemiology rather than germ theory.
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