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back to the chronology 1674: Van Leeuwenhoek observes " small animals surrounded by spherules ".
back to the chronology 1850 : Pasteur and Liebig note the systematic presence of these sticks and spherules in fermentations.
back to the chronology 1876 : Koch discovers the bacilli reponsible for the disease of coal.
back to the chronology 1878 : 1878 : Sedillot proposes to baptize all the " small lives " " microbes ".
back to the chronology 1882 :Koch discovers the bacilli reponsible for Tuberculosis
back to the chronology 1884 : Koch discovers the bacilli reponsible for Cholera...
back to the chronology 1892 : Highlighting of the viruses by Ivanovskiy.
back to the chronology 1918 : Epidemic of influenza killing nearly 20 million people
back to the chronology 1933 : Insulation of the flu virus
back to the chronology 1957 : Lwoff releases the modern concept of viruses: " viruses are infectious and potentially pathogenic. They are nucleoproteic entities having only one type of nucleic acid ". Russian pandemia of influenza.
back to the chronology 1981 : First cases of AIDS in the United States.
back to the chronology 1980-1982 : Prion discovered by the American Prusiner
back to the chronology 1983 : Identification of the virus of AIDS (VIH) by the team of professor Montagnier at the Pasteur Institute of Paris.
back to the chronology 1996 : Crisis of the insane cow. Revelations concerning a possible link between this disease and Creutzfeldt-Jacob.