Second Thoughts on the Germ Theory Everyone harbors disease germs, yet not everyone is sick. This is ascribed to "resistance," suggesting that germs are less important in disease than other ...

To describe these ideas, he coined the phrase ‘Germ Theory’. But someone was hot on Pasteur’s heels… Oh ja! About a decade after Pasteur had first concocted Germ theory, Koch took the next ...

First, the ubiquity thesis confirmed a central claim of both the spontaneous generation debate and the germ theory of disease. As early as 1546, physician Girolamo Fracastoro had argued that germs ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease. Joseph Lister was able to make a much more ...

Do you believe that germs cause disease?’ — the questions health leaders want senators to ask RFK Jr. - Kennedy, President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services, will ...