Reply To: A Hello to Virology
Let us return to the dengue virus and Christine Massey’s request.
To reiterate, she requested:
“1. All studies/reports in the possession, custody or control of the … (CDC) and/or the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) that scientifically prove/evidence the existence of the alleged Dengue virus (showing that the alleged particle exists and causes the disease that it’s alleged to cause);
Or…
2. If the CDC has no studies responsive to #1 above, then please indicate such explicitly, and provide all studies and/or reports in the possession, custody or control of the … (CDC) and/or the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) describing the purification of particles that are alleged to be said virus(es), directly from bodily fluid/tissue/excrement, with purification confirmed via EM imaging (the images must be available as well).”
I’d like one thing to be kept in mind regarding science: Hypotheses aren’t really proven. What is actually done in science is to disprove all alternative hypotheses. The remaining hypothesis is then “proven”.
With that said, let us begin to investigate the virus responsible for dengue fever.
First, here is an excellent and detailed paper from 1907:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/30073165