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Here is a slideshow that gives an overview of the history of the germ theory.

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Even though the concept of vaccines was already created, it was Louis Pasteur's idea to take a virus, weaken it and then inject it in the body in the form as a vaccine.

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We wouldn't have even made sure to wash our hands before eating and doing other things if it wasn't for the germ theory.

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If it weren't for Louis Pasteur, surgeons wouldn't have made sure to wash their hands before performing a surgery and cutting open someone's body. They didn't know before that a small microorganism could affect something like a human so much. Before his theory, the chances of survival after a surgery were very small.

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When we think of Pasteurization, we think of milk but Pasteurization has done so much more. Pasteurization is also used on surgical tools sanitize and kill all of the microorganisms on the tools before using them in surgery.