March 24 is now observed as World Tuberculosis Day. It is a day when tuberculosis moved from speculation to scientific understanding, shaping the future of infectious disease research and public health.

#WorldTBDay #RobertKoch #Tuberculosis #MedicalHistory #GermTheory #ScienceHistory

Nooooooooooo, little Hamnet! 😭

#GermTheory wasn't prominent or widely-accepted in Europe until the 19th century 😭

"Breathe with me, Judith."

Oof, this is as hard as I was fearing. It's about to get ugly. I might not bleet much through this next part.

#Hamnet #FilmSky #MovieSky

Step into the era that transformed #healthcare. Test your skills by matching breakthroughs in #Anesthesia, #GermTheory, #Epidemiology, and more in this 1700–1900 #medical advances challenge. Play now 👉 buff.ly/wI8m7MU #health

DYK during #CrimeanWar (1853–6), #FlorenceNightingale anticipated #LouisPasteur’s #GermTheory & showed cleanliness was key to nursing & #PersonalHygiene? 1861’s U.S. Sanitary Commission made it an #AmericanStandard. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #FemaleLeadership #WmnHist

RFK Jr. Is Dismantling Public Health. A Fringe Theory May Explain Why. The Health and Human Services secretary has long embraced antiscientific ideas that run counter to germ theory, the basis of treating infectious diseases.

#RFKJr rejects #GermTheory in favor of #miasma

www.wsj.com/health/rfk-j...

My dad, born in the '20s, was 1 of 5 children. 2 made it to adulthood.

#Science
#GermTheory
#Medicine
#Vaccines
#PublicHealth

While #LouisPasteur’s work on #germtheory was influential, it’s important to note that raw milk consumption is not recommended (H5N1 avian flu virus survived in raw dairy milk kept under refrigerated conditions for at least 5 weeks,

Unpacking Germ Theory: How Ancient Cleanliness Practices Foreshadowed and Diverged from Modern Science Explore how ancient cleanliness rituals had surprising public health implications before germ theory, examining their intentionality and effectiveness.

From Roman Baths to Microbes: The Unforeseen Paths of Ancient Hygiene and the Rise of Germ Theory

#GermTheory #AncientHygiene #PublicHealth #ScienceHistory #FactRage #FactRageNews

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Absolutely, help with the emotional fallout of severe illness is essential

However, research that focuses on the BPS ‘causes’ of illnesses (and those researchers include cancer in their remit) wastes time, money+lives when the primary cause of a disease is a pathogen #GermTheory

A History of the Germ Theory of Disease in the 19th Century Regarded as the most important discovery in the history of medicine, the germ theory challenged how disease was thought about.

Doctors once believed disease came from “bad air.”

Then germs got under their skin—literally.

How a radical 19th-century shift changed medicine forever 🧬

#Brewminate #GermTheory #MedicalHistory #OnThisDay #ScienceRevolution

I don't let unmasked people into my apartment.

#GermTheory

#DrSteingraber: “What it’s like to be a biologist in 2025:

First they came for #Darwin and I had to fight the #creationists. And then they called “ #CO2plantfood” and I had to fight the #climatedeniers. Then they came for the #germtheory of disease, and I am fucking exhausted.”

#Measels

The Press

Some people I know were aware that #GermTheory deniers were on the rise. We saw them. We tried to warn.

But the scrappy #scicomm folks didn't have any pull.

So here we are. Consequences.

"Sam and Mark Bailey deny germ theory"

www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

Why Big Tech Turned Against Democrats — and Democracy Trump’s America is turning its back on the future — with Big Tech’s help

“We have a #healthsecretary who isn’t just #anti-vaccine — he reportedly doesn’t accept the #germtheory of #disease, preferring the “ #miasmatheory” that was discredited by #LouisPasteur in the 19th century.” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

The fact that they put #GermTheory in parens, like they did "Miasma Theory" is just fucked up.

Germ theory is #SCIENCE.
Miasma theory was a bronze age mystic guessing at what made people sick.

There is simply no comparison.

RFK Jr is a germ theory denier, so he swims in sewage Germ theory denier Robert F Kennedy Jr decided to go swim in a contaminated creek in DC, exposing himself to pathogens.

Robert F Kennedy Jr is a #germtheory denier, so he goes swimming in a sewage-polluted creek. And denying that basic tenet of modern medicine leads to his being anti-#vaccine.

RFK Jr is a germ theory denier, so he swims in sewage Germ theory denier Robert F Kennedy Jr decided to go swim in a contaminated creek in DC, exposing himself to pathogens.

Robert F Kennedy Jr is a #germtheory denier, so he goes swimming in a sewage-polluted creek. And denying that basic tenet of modern medicine leads to his being anti- #vaccine. www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...

@uriebay.bsky.social @beyerstein.bsky.social @tomlevenson.bsky.social @anniegirl.bsky.social @doloresquintana.bsky.social @merlinofcanada.bsky.social @maej43.bsky.social This is what happens when you put someone who doesn't believe in #GermTheory in charge of #PublicHealth #Thread 😠

Germ-theory skeptic RFK Jr. goes swimming in sewage-tainted water The National Park Services bars all swimming and wading due to the health hazard.

We have a health secretary running a huge part of the federal government who literally does not believe in #GermTheory of disease. Here he is breaking federal law by bathing, with grandchildren, in a sewage-contaminated creek.
#RFKjr is a dangerous idiot.

arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

But if you're masking up because you're a surgeon or anesthesiologist or other medical professional -- or a person with a weak immune system -- please proceed, even if it hides your face. #GermTheory

Are Vaccines Stopping Your Wife from Reaching Orgasm? My letter to the CDC

RFKjnr is right. #germtheory
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The rise of a new form of germ theory denial But did they have any underlying conditions?

Great info on germ theory and miasma theory.
#Healthcare #germtheory #miasmatheory
@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social

1/ There’s a growing movement quietly undermining one of the most established scientific ideas: #germtheory —the fact that viruses and bacteria cause disease. YLE contributor @kmpanthagani.bsky.social breaks it down in her most recent health (mis)communication post -- let's talk about it 🧵

#Measles transmission:

No, immigrants from Central & South America do NOT bring it into the U.S.

Nearly all outbreaks in the last 10+ years where the first case is known, it was US residents who brought it home after traveling to places with low vaccination rates. Details in comments.

#GermTheory