How would the world be different without Louis Pasteur?

Answer 1

Quite different............he is most famous for his work in sterilization , mainly to keep milk safe to consume , but he also made major advances in identifying the best yeasts for use in beer making , wine production and bread making.......... Louis Pasteur was born in Dole, France in 1822. He is best known for his discoveries of disease and the Germ Theory. He also created the first vaccine for anthrax and rabies (hydrophobia). The process of preventing the fermentation of milk came to be called Pasteurization, after him. Louis Pasteur also made many discoveries in the field of chemistry. Just think about how life would change if Louis Pasteur had not made any of his miraculous discoveries. Louis Pasteur focused his own research efforts on fermentation—the process that causes milk to go sour. Through his research on fermentation, he found a process to prevent it from occurring in milk and other products. This process has become known as Pasteurization. Without this ingenious discovery, it is possible that we would all have to own a cow in order to get fresh milk. Farmers would be more concerned about their milk than any of their other products. In fact, if we were unable to obtain milk, we would all be very weak and be prone to osteoporosis. Many other foods could not be preserved as well. Pasteurization has come to play an important role in our everyday lives. While solving the pasteurization problem, Pasteur began to think about the idea that many diseases, in animals and humans, were the result of germs, or microbes. In France at the time, many cattle suffered and died from a disease called Anthrax. Through research he created a vaccine which cured the cattle of the disease. Farmers today would still have a massive loss of cattle each year if it were not for Louis Pasteur’s contributions. Immunology might not have been truly acknowledged in the medical department as an actual possibility for disease cure. In addition, vaccines may not have been created. No one aside from Pasteur would ever have thought to create vaccines, or that a disease could be prevented before it occurred. Millions of lives would have been lost if not for this tremendous discovery that truly began a domino affect on the medical discoveries in the world. Pasteur moved on to his next, and perhaps greatest, step in human and animal disease research. Rabies. After Pasteur had experimented with the saliva of animals suffering from the disease, he studied the tissues of infected animals and was able to produce a weakened form of the virus that could be used for the vaccination. Since then, thousands of lives have been saved by this treatment. Rabies would still be killing millions today and would make the domestication of animals nearly impossible. The world as we know it today would probably be overrun with the disease. Human life population would most likely have declined due to all the deaths. In Paris, France, doctors and surgeons did not clean their hands in any way before treating a patient. Many women were dieing during, or shortly after, childbirth because of disease being brought upon them by their own doctors. Surgeons were unknowingly killing their patients as well because of not sterilizing their medical instruments before treating a patient, thus using the same tool on every patient. This also contributed in the many deaths that had been occurring. Disease would spread rapidly, killing more and more people each and every day, causing the world population to decrease dramatically. All of this may have continued if it were not for Louis Pasteur. His “Germ Theory” proved that germs and microbes were creating diseases and contagiously infecting the patients of the doctors of France. Without all of the fantastic innovations of Louis Pasteur, we would have continued to practice the same mistakes of our foolish past. We would not be able to drink milk everyday and increase our physical stability. Anthrax would still be killing off our livestock, decreasing our food supplies. Rabies would be murdering millions everyday; and our doctors would not be as successful in saving the lives of many, as they would be spreading diseases to their patients. All in all, the world would be a much more dismal place, with a decreased population and disease running rampant. To imagine a world without Pasteur would be heartbreaking.

Answer 2

Louis Pateur was the first person who in true sense prove that the life exist from pre existing life or cells and he also give the principal of germs or disease causing agents so he helps in understanding the cause and effect of many pathogenic process without which we will not be able to discover treatment of many lethal diseases

Answer 3

Without him being a dead famous one, upto this date ( i think ), we won't have even found out that the germs are the ones which are causing for our diseases. But for the technologies that we have today, we might have discovered this process by now. If i want to tell alternatively, some other intelligent guy like Pasteur, or maybe Einstein would have made him dead famous. Not for Pasteur.

Answer 4

Without Louis Pasteur, many advancements in microbiology would have been delayed or missed, such as the development of pasteurization to kill harmful bacteria in food and drink. This could have led to more widespread illness outbreaks from contaminated food and drinks. Additionally, the field of immunology would have progressed more slowly without Pasteur's contributions to understanding and developing vaccines.

Answer 5

i have searched heaps and heaps of websites but none of them explain why Louis Pasteur's work affect our lives.