Pale Rider

Chapter three refers to a description by Herbert Shelton of an experiment that had failed to demonstrate the infectious nature of the ‘1918 Flu’. In his article entitled Contagion, he describes a number of other experiments that attempted to determine the alleged bacterial agent that caused the disease, “Several groups of volunteers were inoculated

“began to inspire greater confidence not because they could suddenly cure infectious diseases, but because they seemed better able to explain and prevent them.”

The epidemic of 1918 is usually referred to as a ‘viral’ disease, although initially there were ideas that it was caused by a bacterium. Herbert Shelton describes some of the early experiments conducted on volunteers from the US Naval Detention camp to determine the alleged bacterial cause and to test the transmission of the disease. In his book en

When two patients were admitted to a New York hospital in 1981, one ostensibly dying from pneumonia and the other from cancer, it was not at all evident that both were in fact victims of the HIV virus, which may have infected them months or even years previously.15 However, despite these difficulties, after the medical community became aware of the