NERDS GONE WILD

The first microscope revealed bacteria and immediately started beef with handshakes. Hygiene got a new enemy list.

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek first observed bacteria in the 1670s, but germ theory and handwashing as hygiene practice came much later, in the 19th century, through Pasteur, Semmelweis, and others.

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