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Our
understanding of sepsis has developed over history. Since its use by the
Ancient Greeks, originally meaning to decay or rot, the term “sepsis” came
to be understood through the development of germ theory in the 19th
century. With scientific and medical progress toward the 20th
century we have begun to realise that the human response to infection is as
much to blame as the pathogen itself (Namas et al, 2011). Thus death due to
infection, or alternatively, death due to severe sepsis, is “one of the
world’s oldest killers” and yet until relatively recently, also one of the
most poorly
understood
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