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Twenty-five years
after Snow’s death in 1858, the German bacteriologist, Robert Koch, employed
his microscope to isolate the actual cause of cholera, infection by the
disease agent cholerae vibrio. Although Koch was credited by the
scientific community as the discoverer into the 1960s and beyond, the
Italian bacteriologist Filippo Pacini actually discovered this agent, also
under the microscope, in the year of the Broad Street cholera outbreak,
1854. Ironically and tragically, Pacini died largely unheralded in the year
that Koch rediscovered cholerae vibrio, 1883.
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