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dec 22, 1890 - Roux and Behring

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Pierre Roux and Emily Behring (colleagues of Pasteur and Koch respectively) worked separately on Diphtheria. Roux discovered that the bacteria produce a toxin and Behring discovered that weakened bacteria produce an antitoxin to that toxin.

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dec 22, 1890
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~ 134 years ago