How did Louis Pasteurs experiments lead to new scientific understandings of germs?

Answer 1

Experiments with cooking food showed that disease-carrying germs in food could be killed when heated.

Answer 2

I think its because he disproved the spontaneous generation theory...He did this with experiments in swan necked flasks, when the liquid in the flask remained sterile because the pathogens from the air were trapped in the nexk of the flask. I'm not sure though so you might want to double check.

Proved that cleanliness helps prevent infections..

Answer 3

Louis Pasteur was the man who discovered that the majority of Infectious Diseases are caused by germs. Before his discovery, doctors were not equipped to treat most illnesses because of not knowing what was responsible for causing them.

Answer 4

proved that cleanliness helps to prevent infection :)

Answer 5

proved that cleanliness helps prevent infections.

Answer 6

It allowed people to create vaccines instead of just using religion and beliefs to "cure" infections, luvvie. :D

Answer 7

he is important to history because he was the one who invented the pasteurization of milk and also he was the one who solved the mysteries of rabies,anthrax,silkworm disease,and others.