Jawad ali yousafzai, a 9th grade student, gave a presentation on microbes. He discussed how microbes were first discovered in the 1600s by Hooke and Leeuwenhoek using early microscopes. Microbes include bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, and algae. Some microbes are useful, such as fungi and bacteria used in making cheese, tea, soy sauce, and chocolate. However, some microbes are harmful, such as the chicken gunia virus spread by mosquitoes that causes fever and joint pain.