Microbe Hunters

This dramatisation of the researchers bacteriologists physicians and healthcare professionals who identified the germs and created the vaccines to fight them is timeless. De Kruif discusses the seemingly elementary but actually fundamental scientific discoveries such as how a microbe was first observed in a clear drop of rainwater and how Louis Pasteur was the first to realise that a straightforward vaccine could protect a person from the ravages of rabies by attacking the microbes that cause it.