"It was a squalid, fetid, unsanitary, noisy, and dangerous amalgam of people, animals, wastes, germs, diseases and suffering".
Once distemper was accepted as a contagious germ disease, the veterinary gaze turned to places and conditions where groups of animals could 'catch' it: hunting packs, kennels, dog shows and the street.
estimates, are infected with dormant tuberculosis germs, the disease thrives when immune systems are weakened by H.I.V.
The outbreak, as portrayed in the exhibition and other documentation, highlighted the vulnerabilities of life in overcrowded cities in a time of deplorable sanitation and before medical science recognized the role of germs in disease.
One of the very first motion pictures was "The Fly Pest," produced by the New York City Department of Health in 1907 in an effort to teach people that flies on food and in the house can spread germs and disease.
The astronauts were trapped inside a NASA trailer as part of a quarantine effort just in case they brought back any germs or disease from the moon.
The link between germs and disease was first shown by Louis Pasteur in the 1860s.
Why is it that when I bite my tongue I don't develop a profound infection?" Louis Pasteur, who showed that germs cause disease, was also among the first to speculate that many types of bacteria might be helpful.
Someday genetic mapping may prove to be the most fundamental medical advance since 19th-century doctors recognized that germs cause disease, ushering in modern vaccines, antibiotics and sterilized operating rooms.
Someday genetic mapping may prove to be the most fundamental medical advance since 19th-century researchers recognized that germs cause disease, ushering in modern vaccines, antibiotics and sterilized operating rooms.
