Live Science spoke with author Thomas Levenson about his new book on the history of germ theory.

But folklore is stubborn, capable of resisting even the most compelling facts. By 1925, when Popular Science reported the findings of the US Public Health Service’s first-ever survey on the common ...

Tired of hearing about Louis Pasteur's bold statements that a ... idea that nearly invisible microbes caused disease, his germ theory, had to have a thick skin. Yet, Pasteur, author Paul Trachtman ...

What now? Louis Pasteur next discovered the germ, or more precisely, the 'germ theory of disease', in which diseases are spread between people by microscopic organisms which might be shared ...

This 1930s educational film chronicles the advancements in medicine, emphasizing the pivotal role of Louis Pasteur in laying ... research in combating diseases. The film highlights the day-to ...

Enter: Louis Pasteur of France and Robert ... that this same bacteria could cause disease. To describe these ideas, he coined the phrase ‘Germ Theory’. But someone was hot on Pasteur’s ...

A year ago, the long-time anti-vaccine advocate and current US health secretary famously told The New York Times that a parasitic worm "got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died." The ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease ... 1860s when Louis Pasteur, using Lister ...

But as Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch popularized the germ theory of infection in the late 1870s, scientists began searching for a bacterial species responsible for the disease. Two scientists even ...

In the duchy of medical history, few achievements are as remarkable as the development of the rabies vaccine by French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur in 1885. This groundbreaking ...

Germ theory wasn't accepted throughout history ... who's a chemist, tells him about Louis Pasteur's early work on microbes spoiling beer and wine. This was done in the 1860s, and news got to ...