How Solving this Medical Mystery Saved Lives | Nat Geo Explores

In this episode, we’ll tell the tale of how a 19th-century duel led to a medical breakthrough. Chemist Louis Pasteur was challenged to prove that invisible agents (germs) caused diseases, and he did so by using sheep. With the world’s media at attention and 50 sheep at the ready, the science community waited with bated breath for the reveal that would revolutionize medical science and save countless lives.

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[NatGeo]

Chemist Louis Pasteur was challenged to prove that germs caused diseases, and he did so by using sheep. What was the most interesting thing you learned from this video?

[rayray]

Jon snow not the fictional character but a real doctor who laid the foundation for tracing and dealing with an epidemic things that we still use now ....even today during the coronavirus...I guess he really is underated.

[topdholmg]

Imagine getting sick and the doctor telling you it's demons

[gabriellepica]

wow its really crazy to think that one's common knowledge nowadays was revolutionary ages ago

[sirmeowthelibrarycat]

😢 Thank goodness Pasteur and his peers are not alive today to witness the crass idiocy of so many people protesting against vaccination. His discovery of a vaccine against rabies was worthy of a Nobel Prize in itself. Rabies is up there with smallpox in its terrifying effect on sufferers. We need the modern phalanxes of scientists who stand upon his shoulders to challenge and eventually overcome the Covid 19 pandemic.

[AzlianaLyana]

And most importantly, unbeknownst to most, the world continues to eternally etch his name in every carton and bottles of milk. 💖👍

[sensorcato]

"It makes our children autistic!"
*— Some Mom*

[PaleBlueDot]

Amazing video National Geographic ❤. I really enjoyed watching it, as well as gained some knowledge from it 😊. Now I'm curious to research more about this.

[CrystalandBill]

Oh this is why it says Pasteurized milk on the box ...u learn something everyday.

[prasad_g]

This video is funny & enlightening at the same time

[maggiestogner]

Congratulations Angeli - awesome video!!

[kee]

Analogy between sheep and human being is very appropriate in this period of pandemic insanity. Are you preparing an advertisement for futur corona vaccin???

[pennywright]

At 0:15 why does the video go so fast showing other scientists? What’s the point of showing them at all? Also, this whole video seems too short.

[mr.personhumanson]

and doctors back then gets offended when you told them to wash their hands first before treating a wound

[chavamara]

What about Dr. Robert Koch!!! Scientific achievements are rarely discovered by just one person!

[robertbosch]

This coming out today while I am in the middle of a course of medical microbiology (including Vaccines and Pathogens) can't be a coincidence 😂

[lumberpilot]

Bechamp not Pasteur. NG needs to do homework first.

[PhilMoskowitz]

I heard about this in a bar just before Mongo came in an tore up the place.

[anjan_paul]

Please lonch your Official App Nat Geo...❤ I love to see your all channel's each & every programme

[ABCDEF-rpzq]

None of the saved is living, neither can we barely save them for the endless time ; come up and question : " who am I", be away from all such pains. 😍😍😍