Examples of germ theory in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The fact that Mills survived his battlefield wounds in an era before germ theory is matched by the miracle that the shirt survived the next century and a half. — Star Tribune, 3 July 2021 Being extremely online during months of quarantine has pushed some into becoming anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, or even to deny the very existence of the virus - some have even rejected germ theory entirely. — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 16 June 2021 But germ theory did not immediately do away with the importance of fresh air. — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2021 Before Pasteur’s germ theory was published, in 1861, hospitals were often unsanitary, as likely to cause infection as to cure it. — Chris Pomorski, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021 There wasn’t an understanding of contagion or germ theory. — The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2021 The framework dates back to the embrace of germ theory in the late 19th century. — Meghan O'rourke, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2021 By the late 19th century, scientists were developing the beginnings of germ theory. — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2021 At this time the germ theory of disease was still controversial, and scientists were 20 years away from identifying viruses. — Ernest Freeberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2020

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