who developed the germ theory for disease
From Conservapedia. The Germ theory of disease, developed in the 1860s and 1870s by Louis Pasteur, states that tiny living beings are the cause of infectious diseases. The theory was developed to explain puerperal fever, or Child bed fever.nly after the germ theory was championed by Pasteur (see pasteurization) and Lister (namesake of Listerine mouthwash) did antiseptic medicine become popular. Prior to germ theory, it was widely believed that disease was spread by noxious odors.