Contagion Studies and Historical Virology

they rely on, you know, carbon dating and things like that. So the machinery and the mechanisms

involved in virology, I had not a clue, but I started to kind of look and what turned out to

be contagion studies. So they did actually give people, you know, what they considered to be

virus directly up the nose. And, and in some of the older ones, at the turn of the century,

the turn of the 20th century, they were such as the Rosen now studies, which were conducted by

the US Navy, where they took people who were displaying the symptoms or basically very unwell

with what they considered to be the Spanish flu. And they took all of their fluids, the bow for the

mucus, the sputum, and did everything that they could to healthy people to try and infect them.

And lo and behold, I mean, you know, this was a real kind of change for me in my life was

realising that they all failed.