who was louis pasteur and emile roux
Storyline. The time is 1860, and cholera is beginning to spread throughout France's chicken population. Louis Pasteur and his assistant, Emile Roux, collect samples and deduce that disease can be transmitted through air. They then draw blood from the chickens and see an unidentified germ in the specimens.
Louis Pasteur. Pasteur Institute and Museum. The chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur (1822 -1895) was born in Jura in Eastern France. He devoted his career to research on infectious diseases after the tragic loss of three of his five children to typhoid.