Virology timeline by Dr. Stefan Lanka

Thousands of years without a germ theory

Virus “isolation” via transmission of animal inoculation

Socrates says disease may have causes beyond gods/miasma

~470–399 BC

Fracasturp presents theory of “invisible contagion”

1546

Hooke observes “cells”

1665

Leeuwenhoek observes “micro-organisms”

1676

Virchow unites medicine and the state

1858

Chamerland filter

1884

Beijerinck establishes the virus concept

1898

Rabbies identified via animal inoculation

1903

Yellow fever virus establisehd with mosquito transmission demonstrated

1901

Influenza virus isolated via Ferret inoculation

1933

Electron miscroscope makes first picture of a virus (Polio)

1939

Virus “isolation” via controlled killing of cell cultures

Enders isolates measles via cell culture, setting the new gold standard for isolating a virus

1954

Mullis invents PCR

1983

1993

Papadopulos-Eleopulos and The Perth Group publish papers
showing that HIV was never isolated/proven to exist

Virus “isolation” via “genetic” sequencing

1st virus sequenced via Sanger sequencing

1995

2016

Lanka Measles Trial: the German High court rules that no paper/study exists solely or taken together that definitively proves the existence of a virus including for genetic sequencing

SARS-CoV-2 discovered via PCR, NGS, EM

2020

2022

Lanka does "negative control" experiments for SARS-CoV-2 and shows that CPE/Cell death occurs even without the presence of a "infectious" agent

2023

The VCP repeats Lanka’s “negative control” experiments for SARS-CoV-2 and also shows that CPE/cell death occurs even without the presence of a “infectious” agent