The Rosenau Experiment 1918-19

Dr. Milton Joseph Rosenau was a Preventive Medicine and Hygiene Professor at Harvard Medical School.

He obtained a grant from a corporation that suffered substantial losses during an epidemic the previous year.

It was an experiment with 100 Navy volunteers with no influenza history.

Several methods were used to infect the volunteers:

First, one strain and then several strains of Pfeiffer bacillus were sprayed and swabbed into their noses and throats and then into their eyes.

Some were inoculated with mixtures of other organisms isolated from the throats and noses of influenza patients.

Some received injections of blood from influenza patients.

Finally, 13 volunteers were taken to an influenza ward and exposed to 10 influenza patients each. Each volunteer was to shake hands with each patient, talk with him at close range, and permit him to cough directly into his face.

None of the volunteers developed influenza.

Rosenau was puzzled, and he cautioned against drawing conclusions from negative results. He ended his article with a telling acknowledgement:

“We entered the outbreak with a notion that we knew the cause of the disease and were quite sure we knew how it was transmitted from person to person. Perhaps, if we have learned anything, it is that we are not quite sure what we know about the disease.”

A further experiment in 1919 inoculated with the Mathers streptococcus produced similar negative results.

“It seemed that what was acknowledged to be one of the most contagious of communicable diseases could not be transferred under experimental conditions.”

In The Invisible Rainbow, Arthur Firstenberg shows that the 1918-19 Spanish Flu epidemic occurred during the worldwide rollout of radio technology. Radio waves EMF (Electro Magnetic Frequency) radiation interferes with cellular functions, which also use EMF.