How we beat infectious disease
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From bad air and bloodletting to germ theory, vaccines, antibiotics and the eradication of smallpox, and the fights still ahead.
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Before germs
The germ revolution
The weapons
How epidemics spread and stop
The fights ahead
Debunked
Miasma Theory
Debunked
Humorism: The Four Humors
Debunked
Bloodletting
Proven
Semmelweis and Handwashing
Theory
Germ Theory of Disease
Proven
Pasteurization
Fact
Sanitation
Fact
Sewage Treatment
Proven
Handwashing Prevents Infection
Fact
Vaccines
Proven
Penicillin
Proven
The Eradication of Smallpox
Proven
mRNA Vaccines
Fact
Monoclonal Antibodies
Fact
The Immune System
Fact
The Black Death
Theory
The Basic Reproduction Number
Theory
Herd Immunity
Fact
Contact Tracing
Fact
Quarantine
Proven
HIV Causes AIDS
Proven
Antibiotic Resistance
Fact
Disease Surveillance
Smallpox is the only human disease ever eradicated. The world was declared free of it in 1980.
Question
If bacteria evolve around every antibiotic we make, what comes after antibiotics?