Among the more common are lung infections caused by parasitic germs known as Pneumocystis carinii, and the skin cancer called Kaposi’s sarcoma, which also involves internal organs.
Basically, in one of two ways, they shore up the body’s defenses against the invasion of infectious agents called pathogens, which include germs and viruses.
Into our vocabulary have come phrases reflecting the violence of this generation: “germ warfare,” “the Holocaust,” “killing fields,” “rape camps,” “serial killers,” and “the bomb.”
“We know how to find pearls in the shells of oysters, gold in the mountains and coal in the bowels of the earth, but we are unaware of the spiritual germs, the creative nebulae, that the child hides in himself when he enters this world.” —Dr.
However, when 19th-century scientists confirmed the link between germs and disease, we became better equipped to defend ourselves.
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While studying fowl cholera, Pasteur noticed that a culture of the germ that was only a few months old did not make the chickens ill but instead protected them from the illness.