Pasteur's Involvement With Infectious Diseases

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The article that I read had a lot of components and it seems that Pasteur was involved in many different studies and topics throughout his life. Pasteur’s first involvement with infectious diseases, however, were when he was working on an epidemic among silkworms in France. During this work, Pasteur proposed the germ theory which basically stated that various diseases could be contracted through contaminated bacteria, or germs. The motivation behind Pasteur’s discoveries was the many diseases among the community. When working with the silkworms, Pasteur questioned what was making them sick and why it was spreading. The discoveries that Pasteur made were very significant. According to my reading, “it triggered a hunt for pathogens: within 20

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