Plague Time: the New Germ Theory of Disease

Yesterdays heresy is often tomorrows fact and vice versa. This makes medical research exciting and, of course, necessary. Many examples support this statement, from the anatomist Vesaliuss findings to the very latest research.

Paul Ewald is a biologist at Amherst College, Massachusetts, who, to put it mildly, suggests something controversial. Ewalds thesis is that in addition to many acute illnesses, germs are also responsible …