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A 5 page research paper that offers a brief history of sterilization and disinfection and then discusses the latest developments in this age-old battle. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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had somehow angered God (Abernathy, 2008). Even today, in developing countries, it is not unusual to find people who believe that disease is caused either by the sins of the
individual or that the ill person is the victim of a curse. Between 1879 and 1900, Western society experienced a series of discoveries that have been referred to as
the "germ revolution," as this is when medical science began to move toward understand microbes as the root cause of contagious disease (Abernathy, 2008). In 1840, Ignaz Semmelweis discovered
that when doctors washed their hands prior to delivering babies, the incidence of women dying of "childbed fever" decreased drastically (Abernathy, 2008). Prior to Semmelweiss discovery, the doctors typically came
straight to the delivering woman from working with cadavers-without washing their hands. In the 1860s, Louis Pasteur completely disproved the previous theory of contagion, which held that disease generated spontaneously,
as he formulated germ theory and introduced the idea that disease was caused by microbes, "germs," with each a different type of germ responsible for producing each disease. Joseph Lister,
building on the work of Semmelweis and Pasteur, developed antiseptic surgery in the late 1860s (Abernathy, 2008). Slowly, people, and medical practitioners, began to accept the fact that improved hygiene
and isolation of contagious patients would save lives and slow the transmission of illness. Sterilization and disinfection of microorganisms, bacteria, viruses, and fungus, provide the first line of defense
in combating these threats to public health. However, sterilization and disinfection are not synonymous, as sterilizing something refers to killing all of the microbes, so that the object is completely
free of any living microorganism. To disinfect something, however, refers to killing the majority of the organisms present on the object, and some bacterial spores may still be present after
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