This is true.
For example, the Hillside Apartments was a steel framed construction and was damaged beyond repair after the quake. However, the building next it was wood frame construction and it survived with minor damages.
Another thing to know is that wood can withstand massive earthquakes. Wood construction has some tremendous advantages. Wood is strong,light,flexible and fast.
Hoped this helped! ^.^
Oh there have been plenty.
STI's for example including HIV (human Immunodeficiency virus) has definitely boosted the awareness of caution and avoiding risky behaviors in both sexual terms and reducing exposure to bodily fluid via blood in work, or IVDA (intravenous drug abuse) needle sharing.
Additionally potentially dangerous and very infectious diseases like the Flu have put an emphasis on the very basic disease prevention of washing ones hands, covering your sneezes, wearing face masks during exposure, and getting vaccinated as well.
And these are merely two examples of how hundreds of disease shaped out infection control protocols and norms.
hope this helps...prevention of childhood diseases and outbreaks, higher school attendance rates and lower occurances of diseases for families that may heave come in contact with children.
That would be called a lobotomy.
I hope this helped :)
