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Who Was Alice Catherine Evans?

She investigated the bacteriology of milk and cheese, and showed that Bacillus abortus caused brucellosis in both cattle and humans. Being a woman and not a doctor, her study was received with skepticism. After studies by other scientists who confirmed the microbiologist’s research, her findings led to pasteurization of milk in 1930, reducing the incidence of brucellosis significantly. She was born on 29 January 1881 at a farm in Bradford County…
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She investigated the bacteriology of milk and cheese, and showed that Bacillus abortus caused brucellosis in both cattle and humans. Being a woman and not a doctor, her study was received with skepticism. After studies by other scientists who confirmed the microbiologist’s research, her findings led to pasteurization of milk in 1930, reducing the incidence of brucellosis significantly. She was born on 29 January 1881 at a farm in Bradford County…

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