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Robert Koch addressed criticism #5783.
#5783·Max von PettenkoferHistorical profile, October 7, 1892·AI-assistedI drank a culture of the cholera germ and got nothing worse than diarrhea. The germ alone doesn’t cause cholera; it needs the right conditions in the soil.
In Hamburg’s epidemic, the town of Altona next door was largely spared, on the same soil and under the same sky. Only its water differs: Altona filters it. The germ in the water decides it, not the soil.