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    Robert Koch‚ was one of the most influential biologists that the world has ever seen. He made many contributions to biology during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Robert Koch had an interesting life‚ made many important discoveries to biology‚ and has some great achievements and awards to his name. On December 11‚ 1843‚ in a small town in Germany called Clausthal‚ Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch was born. He was a bright young boy‚ by the age of five he had already taught himself how to read

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    Robert Koch had been interested in studying anthrax and later went on to other diseases. He had found some sticks inside of the animals dead from anthrax and wanted to prove that the sticks he had found grew. Therefore‚ he took pieces of silver and dropped them into the blood of the sheep dead from anthrax so that he could place a piece into the body of a mouse. The next morning‚ the mouse was dead and on the inside‚ Koch dad located the sticks‚ proving that they grew and were the cause of anthrax

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    1843. * Koch decided to change his area of study to medicine from natural science‚ as he aspired to be a physician. *  In July of 1867‚ following his graduation from medical school‚ Koch married Emma Adolfine Josephine Fraatz‚ and the two had a daughter‚ Gertrude‚ in 1868 * After his graduation in 1866‚ he worked as a surgeon in‚ and following his service‚ worked as a physician in what today is known as Wolsztyn‚ Poland the Franco-Prussian War * He is a german * Koch served as an

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    Influenza Influenza is usually known as flu. This infectious disease caused by RNA viruses. This virus is not only attack human‚ but this virus also affects birds and mammals. The symptoms of this disease are fever‚ sore throat‚ muscle pains‚ headache‚ weakness‚ and coughing. This disease is very common nowadays. So many people affected by this disease. Even though it’s very easy to be affected by this virus‚ but this virus is not really dangerous. Dengue Fever Dengue fever is also known as

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    biological community and that is Robert Koch. This paper‚ filled with research‚ will explain the life of Robert Koch and his contribution to biology. On December 11‚ 1843‚ at Clausthal in the Upper Harz Mountain‚ which is located in the Northern Germany‚ Robert Koch was born. His father was a mining engineer. His intelligence foreshadowed his future education because‚ he taught himself to read the newspaper at the age of five. He taught himself by examining the words. Robert attended a local high school

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    Viral Diseases

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    What causes viral diseases? Viral infections occur when a virus enters the body and invades the inside of the body’s cells in order to reproduce. If the body’s immune system is unable to fight off the virus‚ it multiplies and spreads to other cells‚ repeating the process and leading to a widespread infection. Signs & Symptoms of rabies One of the most distinctive signs of a rabies infection is a tingling or twitching sensation around the area of the animal bite. In people‚ symptoms of rabies include

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    Century Medicine Robert Koch (1834) Koch worked on anthrax and tuberculosis (TB) and developed work of Louis Pasteur. Koch first investigated Anthrax (that affected herds of farm animals and farmers.) In 1868 Davaine had proved that a healthy animal that did not have anthrax could get the disease if it was injected with blood containing Anthrax. Koch developed this work further. Koch found out that Anthrax microbes produced spores that lived for a long time after an animal had died and these spores

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    usion Robert Koch was one of the most educated scientist in 1905 because of his studies over the years he worked in a lab. Robert Koch was born on december 11‚ 1843 and he was born into a poor mining family. But in 1866 Robert got married to Emmy Fraatz and two years lIntroduction “The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease” -Robert koch. Robert Koch was one of the most educated scientists of 1905. Body Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch or Robert Koch was born on December

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    Anthrax

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    Anthrax is an infectious disease and it is caused by Bacillus anthracis. It is also called Splenic Fever‚ or Charbon. There are three types of Anthrax‚ there is cutaneous (anthrax of the skin‚) inhalation anthrax‚ and gastrointestinal anthrax. Anthrax is a large‚ rod shaped bacterium. It mostly affects animals but also can be transmitted to humans. Anthrax’s first incident was in 1500 B.C. in the early writings of Mesopotamia and the Book of Genesis. The Old Testament description of the 5th

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    Why was the work of Robert Koch and his research team so important in improving our understanding of the causes of disease? Before Koch’s developed the understanding of the causes of disease‚ Louis Pasteur published his ‘germ theory’ in 1861. His theory was that germs also cause human diseases. He carried out a series of experiments three years later‚ which convinced scientists that his germ theory was correct. It meant that for the first time in history‚ scientists and doctors knew the origin

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