SciShow: How Studying Bacteria Almost Kept Us From Discovering the Flu

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Content of the Lesson: Today we know pathogens -- viruses, bacteria, and certain other microbes -- are responsible for many diseases. But linking specific diseases to the microbes that cause them has been surprisingly tricky, and some research practices lead to false accusations. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hippocrates http://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/MPH-Modules/EP/EP713_Causality/EP713_Causality2.html https://www.cdc.gov/cholera/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/transmission/virus.html https://www.cdc.gov/tb/topic/basics/default.htm https://www.asm.org/ASM/media/docs/1882p109.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/tb/topic/basics/tbinfectiondisease.htm https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/biology/index.html#tabs-1-6 https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html https://cmr.asm.org/content/9/1/18.long https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1905/koch/biographical/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1905/koch/facts/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3775492/ https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/laveran.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4014013/ https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsbm.1956.0016 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/219924 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673600785412 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8665474 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2889325/ https://www.nytimes.com/1918/10/02/archives/tells-of-vaccine-to-stop-influenza-dr-copeland-says-discovery-has.html Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TB_Culture.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Le_Brun-Grande_Commande-Les_Quatre_temperaments.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Koch_NLM.jpg https://phil.cdc.gov/Details.aspx?pid=17196 https://phil.cdc.gov/Details.aspx?pid=16870 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/veterinarian-injects-microchip-into-cat-gm183543384-15525417 https://phil.cdc.gov/Details.aspx?pid=22370 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/virus-closeup-gm1059694064-283256299 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EM_of_influenza_virus.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/mosquito-gm616235376-107131091 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1918_flu_outbreak_RedCrossLitterCarriersSpanishFluWashingtonDC.jpg https://www.videoblocks.com/video/close-up-of-adorable-guinea-pig-with-red-fur-and-human-hand-petting-it-bq_iu5krnjs11wwdh https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SpanishFluWardWalterReed.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dna-sequencing-peaks-show-gm540852816-96661973 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/dog-lies-and-coughs-hieofo8vqjlhp48s6


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