Sunday, December 11, 2016

Topic 2 Prehistoric microbiology

Humankind since ancient times was know for the beneficial or harmful role of microbes.
Before centuries humankind has known more about their role than the author.
For example they used processes like fermentation, vine production or even the disease that was caused by microorganism but they didn’t know the authors of these processes.
In ancient times the disease that comes from microorganism was called like curse or God punishment.

In ancient Egypt they used their “bacteriologic weapon” in wars, using infected blood, human dead bodies to contaminate enemy’s water supplies.

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