When Deliberate Exposure Did Not Cause Disease In this eighth episode of AntiViral, we explore a few of the most direct historical challenges to the germ “theory” of disease. In some of the most striking—and largely forgotten—episodes in medical history, physicians tested germ hypotheses on themselves, on volunteers, and even on their own family members, with some fully expecting… Continue reading AntiViral Ep. 8: The Germ Duel — A Century of Failed Experiments