Who was the first person to determine that germs caused disease? Select one of the options below as your answer:
a. Robert Koch
b. Marie Curie
c. Albert Einstein
d. Louis Pasteur

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Who was the first person to determine that germs caused disease? Select one of the options below as your answer:
a. Robert Koch
b. Marie Curie
c. Albert Einstein
d. Louis Pasteur
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The correct answer is d. Louis Pasteur  and the name for his finding is the Gem Theory of disease - the theory that disease is caused by Gems - until then people didn't know this. He did this by working on a plague of silkworms.

He also proved that fermentation is caused  by microorganisms.
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It would be "d. Louis Pasteur"--a French chemist--who was the first person to determine that germs caused disease, since this was a major breakthrough in both medicine and science in general.