Human Health and Diseases Question 88

88. Passive immunity was discovered by

[1996]

(a) Edward Jenner

(b) Emil von Behring

(c) Robert Koch

(d) Louis Pasteur

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Answer : a

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(a) Robert Koch is associated with Koch’s postulates that help in determining whether a given micro-organism is pathogenic or not. Louis pasteur experimentally proved that all life originated from pre-existing life. Emil Von Behring was a German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.