In a 1955 interview of Jonas Salk, Edward Murrow asked him who owned the patent to the polio vaccine.
Salk replied: "Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"
Estimates suggest a patent could have been worth around $7 billion in todayβs terms (adjusted), yet Salk walked away from patenting it to maximize global access.
The 1998 X-Files movie was based on a staged outbreak of the hantavirus in order to conceal an alien invasion of earth.
Now, just as the Trump White House is beginning to release the government's alien files, a hantavirus outbreak happens ona. cruise ship.
Passengers on a four-star Antarctic cruise ship have fallen illβand a few have even diedβfrom the hantavirus.
Several countries have refused to allow passengers from this ship to disembark.
A concern is building regarding viral spread, with comparisons being made to the early days of the virus then called the Wuhan virus.
I remember first hearing about hantavirus in Bill Bryson's book A Wallk in the Woods about hiking the Appalachian trail. One could get the deadly virus from sleeping in a shelter in which there was mouse sh*tβsimply by breathing the air around it.
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