I've been given penicillin for a viral infection before (don't ask me why, ask the doc who gave it to me). There was an experiment with the flu(? It may have been a bacterial infection not a virus) virus that was extracted from a ship that was ravaged by a disease while it was headed toward the antarctic. The disease killed everyone (no known survivors at least). When it was extracted, the scientists compared it's reaction to antibioitics with the reaction of a modern strain of the same disease. In their results, the extracted strain survived, while the modern strain didn't. But they reported their finding's as the other way around, and when they were exposed, they admitted their wrongdoing. A similar experiment is going to be conducted with the 1918 flu strain that will be extracted from some that died in a northern European country (maybe Scandinavian). I found this ref in a paper call "Did God make Patogenic Virses?" at
True Origins | alimentacin natural this ref applies to the 1918 bug not the former one, the site was closed down due to financial difficulties.
This message has been edited by christ_fanatic, 09-16-2005 01:39 PM