![This 'bacteria hunter' discovered the causes of tuberculosis, anthrax, and cholera | National Geographic This 'bacteria hunter' discovered the causes of tuberculosis, anthrax, and cholera | National Geographic](https://static.nationalgeographic.co.uk/files/styles/image_3200/public/suv-00022704.jpeg?w=1600&h=900)
This 'bacteria hunter' discovered the causes of tuberculosis, anthrax, and cholera | National Geographic
German Microbiologist Robert Koch Portrait From 1890 Stock Illustration - Download Image Now - iStock
Nobel Prize - German physician Robert Koch, born on this day in 1843, discovered the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB) In the 1800s, the disease caused as many as a quarter of
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