The Fight against Germs

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Pasteur's Discoveries

Pasteur competed with Koch in finding new microbes, discovered a vaccine for chicken cholera in 1880, and experimented with attenuated anthrax bacteria in 1881.

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Koch's Methods Impact

Koch's methods led to the discovery of the diphtheria germ by Edwin Klebs in 1883, the production of antitoxin for diphtheria by Emil von Behring in 1891, and Nobel Prize-winning research on malaria transmission by Ronald Ross in 1902.

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Paul Ehrlich's Contributions

Ehrlich discovered dyes killing malaria and sleeping sickness germs in 1889, identified syphilis bacteria in 1905, and introduced Salvarsan 606 as a treatment for syphilis in 1911.

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Impact of Germ Theory

Germ theory led to the development of new vaccines, antiseptics, and government intervention in public health, with limited impact on treatments in Britain until the pharmaceutical industry boom in the 1940s.