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THE GERM´S DISCOVERY

  • CHOLERA´S PANDEMIC

    CHOLERA´S PANDEMIC
    Occurred during that year a big pandemic of cholera, which had spread from Asia to the world because had not yet discovered the cause and cure of this disease.
  • THE GERM´S ORIGEN

    THE GERM´S ORIGEN
    This year many mothers died for Child Bed Fever (an infection of the uterus) , Dr. Ignaz Semmelweiz discovered that his patients died because they were contagious by the midwives who did not wash their hands after doing an autopsy. If this doctor had not discovered that midwives who washed their hands , not transmitting the disease, He would not have made ​​the first questions that later lead to the discovery of the germ.
  • THE GERM`S DISCOVERY

    THE GERM`S DISCOVERY
    French chemist Louis Pasteur was trying to find out what whats spoiling the country's wine production. He discovered that the spoiled one was contaminated by microorganims. If Pasteur had not discovered germs, the world would not have been able to subsequently find a cure for many diseases.
  • PASTEURIZATION

    PASTEURIZATION
    Pasteur showed that the germs could be killed by a process called pasteurization. If the pasteurization had not created, the diseases without cause and cure would have increased.
  • DISCOVERY OF MALARIA

    DISCOVERY OF MALARIA
    Scientific studies on malaria made ​​their first significant advance in 1880, when the French military doctor Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, working in Algeria, observed parasites inside red blood cells of people with malaria. Therefore proposed that the malaria causing protozoan, the first time a protozoan was identified as causing disease. If malaria hadn´t been discovered, this would have become a deadly pandemic.
  • FIRST VACCINE

    FIRST VACCINE
    The first vaccine was used to combat smallpox by Edward Jenner. If vaccines hadn´t been created, no one would have been preventing the spread of many diseases.
  • CREATION OF ANTIBIOTICS

    CREATION OF ANTIBIOTICS
    The term antibiotic was first used by Selman Waksman in 1942 to describe certain "antibiotic influences", ie, those formulations that were antagonistic to the growth of microorganisms and were derived from other living organisms. The goal of treatment with antibiotics is to eradicate the pathogen. If antibiotics han´t been created, many bacterias would have been causing terrible disasters on the health of people.
  • CREATION OF ANTIVIRALS

    CREATION OF ANTIVIRALS
    The first experimental antivirals were developed in the 60s, mostly to attack the herpes virus (HHV), which was generated with the methodology "trial and error". However, after the mid-80s, the scenario changed drastically. Dozens of antiviral treatments that are still available so far developed. If antivirals hadn´t been created, many viruses would have been expanded more and more around the world.
  • THE DISCOVER OF HIV VIRUS

    THE DISCOVER OF HIV VIRUS
    In France, Dr. Luc Montagnier and his team found something very important about the disease that caused sensation at the time AIDS. His team discovered that this disease was caused by a virus called HIV. If Dr. Luc Montagnier and his team hadn´t discovered HIV, more people would have died today because of this pathogen.
  • CREATION OF THE GUIDE TO HAND HYGIENE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH.

    CREATION OF THE GUIDE TO HAND HYGIENE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH.
    In October 2002 was published by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Guide for hand hygiene in the healthcare environment. If this guide wouldn´t have been created, the health personnel had infected their patients of infectious diseases.