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With these observations, Van Leeuwenhoek became the first person to ever see a microorganism—a discovery of almost incalculable significance to human health and our understanding of life on this planet. 6/11 https://t.co/xx0ETXivfb — PolitiTweet.org

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After one fatty meal, he examined his own stool and saw animalcules “somewhat longer than broad, and their belly, which was flat-like, furnished with sundry little paws”— now known as the parasite giardia. 5/11 — PolitiTweet.org

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Two of the microorganisms that Van Leeuwenhoek identified—protozoa and bacteria—are by some estimates responsible for more than half the deaths of every human who has ever lived, and yet until he observed them their existence had hardly been postulated, much less proven. 7/11 — PolitiTweet.org

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