Outbreak! Plagues That Changed History by Bryn Barnard

Author:Bryn Barnard [Barnard, Bryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-48925-8
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2011-10-25T16:00:00+00:00

Have vibrio, will travel

Thirty years, two cholera pandemics, and hundreds of thousands of deaths after John Snow’s observations, the great German biologist Robert Koch finally discovered the microbe responsible for cholera. In 1883, during the fifth pandemic (1881–86), Koch beat his archrival, Louis Pasteur, by identifying the cholera vibrio in the disease’s homeland, India. Koch became a German national hero. (Vibrio is one of the many shape-based words still used to describe bacteria. A vibrio is comma-shaped. A bacillus is rod-shaped. A spirochete is screw-shaped. A coccus is round.)

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