The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has reported a total of 747 confirmed cases of Lassa fever across 18 states in the country, with 142 deaths recorded as of epidemiological ...

Robert Koch, a founding father of microbiology, used hands-on experiments in the 1800s to find the bacteria behind three of history's deadliest diseases. Robert Koch peers into a microscope in his ...

Dr Robert Koch was a pivotal figure in the golden age of microbiology. It was the German bacteriologist who discovered the bacteria that causes anthrax, septicaemia, tuberculosis and cholera ...

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(WHTM) — On March 24, 1882, a German physician and researcher, Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (1814-1910), announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the microbe that causes tuberculosis.

When cholera ravaged Hamburg in 1892, politics — not science — drove the response. Over a century later, as we confront ...

Once thought to have originated in cows and spread through dust, the surprising evolutionary story of tuberculosis reveals why it's so hard to stamp out this ancient disease, writes Carl Zimmer ...

Robert Gene Koch passed away on December 3, 2024, at the age of 80 in Evansville, Indiana. He was born in Evansville, Indiana on February 16, 1944. Bob passed away peacefully and stayed strong ...

In 1890, Robert Koch described the basis rules that scientists use to determine if an infectious organism causes a specific disease. These four rules are called "Koch's postulates." The organism ...

Robert "Bob" Koch of Holland, MI passed away on August 4, 2024, at the age of 92. Bob was loved and cherished by all who knew him. He was incredibly smart, funny, cheerful, able to fix anything ...