#pasteur

[cientirinhas]

[juego-de-palabras]

[whencyclopedia]

This infographic illustrates seven crucial vaccines, biological preparations that train the immune system to recognize and fight harmful pathogens, preventing disease without causing illness. Throughout history, they have saved millions of lives, reduced child mortality, and helped control or eradicate deadly diseases. Some of the most crucial vaccines in history include: The smallpox vaccine...

[fieriframes]

[Now coming up... Luck favors the prepared, Pasteur. ...another must-see in Massachusetts...]

[ephphathax]

Often science is falsely portrayed as incompatible with Faith. Fr. Robert Spitzer SJ, an expert in physics, philosophy, and theology debunks this diffused myth in a great talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ARp2TDYOqI

Among the many Catholic scientists who have shaped history, this timeline highlights 13 from the 13th century onward—who let their faith lead them on a journey to scientific truth. #MagisCenter

[amedicalhistory]

U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (USAAW)

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It's Antibiotic Awareness Week. I'll be sharing a piece of history each day, but let's start at the end. Antibiotic resistance, the ability of disease-causing bacteria to survive antibiotics and pass down those survival genes to their offspring, creating diseases that are immune to treatment, is an ever-growing threat. Right now, Tuberculosis (TB), and Staphylococcus (Staff infections) are the biggest problems, having evolved immunity to multiple drugs. The PASTEUR ACT would fund research into new drugs, and entirely new ways to treat disease.

[beforeliteracytherewasdeez]

Imagine a disease so deadly that the mortality rate is 100%. A disease so deadly that people in the Middle Ages used to desperately cling to the hope that, if they walked far enough, to where this and that patron Saint was worshipped, they may live just a bit longer. A disease so deadly that, even today, people use it as an inspiration for zombies and other ghouls.

After hundreds and thousands of years of this, on the dawn of the 20th century, the news spread of someone who has made a cure for it and, if you reach him fast enough, you will live.

I think if anybody is going to study History of Medicine, the most uplifting part of it is Pasteur.