Subject: Melvynn's new stuff
 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 17:06:47 -0000

 Re: a UK radio prog called "In Our Time" on this morning

 Melvynn's getting interesting again (repeated tonite on BBC Radio 4 - 21:30 
 Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time)

 quote - "The basic notion that "we are all infected but relatively few of us are 
 ill", that sentence came from Dr Emil Behring who won the first Nobel Prize for 
 Medicine in 1901 for work in creating a diphtheria vaccine serum.  He had proved 
 through microbiology that causation of disease was complex.  His work went back 
 to a massive poll in New York in 1894 which proved that thousands of healthy 
 children had the diphtheria bacteria.  It also became known in the 1890s that 
 90% of Europe's population was infected with the TB bacillus.  So what was going 
 on?"
 ...
 "One startling remark he made soon after we met was "babies die you know if kept 
 in a sterile atmosphere"."
 unquote

 cheers
 Ray

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