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Plague Time: the New Germ Theory of Disease

Name: Plague Time: the New Germ Theory of Disease
Creator: Sanjay Pai
Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, 3. Good health

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Feb 2003 English Publisher:BMJJournal:BMJ, volume 326, page 030238a (eissn: 1756-1833,

Authors: Sanjay Pai;

doi: 10.1136/sbmj.030238a

Plague Time: the New Germ Theory of Disease

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Yesterdays heresy is often tomorrows fact and vice versa. This makes medical research exciting and, of course, necessary. Many examples support this statement, from the anatomist Vesaliuss findings to the very latest research. Paul Ewald is a biologist at Amherst College, Massachusetts, who, to put it mildly, suggests something controversial. Ewalds thesis is that in addition to many acute illnesses, germs are also responsible …

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