A chapter in JFK Jr.'s book about germ theory has shed new light on just why U.S. health policy is being changed.

Live Science spoke with author Thomas Levenson about his new book on the history of germ theory.

When you don’t believe in germ theory, the world is your oyster—or maybe your bathtub. Over the weekend, America's top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., shared pictures on social media ...

Kings and Generals continues its Victorian Era series - supported by Paradox Interactive and Victoria 3 - with a look at 10 major events that defined the 19th century. From the First Opium War and ...

Germ theory also knocks back a lesser-known idea called the terrain theory, which we've covered before. This is a somewhat ill-defined theory that generally suggests diseases stem from imbalances ...

The Germ Theory of Medicine is less than 100 years old, and before this shift in thinking on disease, past humans developed some very interesting ideas around medicine. Interestingly, some of them ...

Every outbreak brought more evidence of airborne transmission. A civil engineer found that a serious outbreak of H5N1 in a ...

Pasteur, who was also a pharmacist and microbiologist, would eventually gain worldwide renown for his contributions to germ theory, the discovery of vaccines and the process that bears his name ...

Germ theory wasn't accepted throughout history, but once it was, it paved the way to vaccines that could prevent disease by stopping germs in their tracks. | Credit: Jackyenjoyphotography via ...