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Terrain Theory: Recontextualising the Germ

by Torsten Engelbrecht, Dr. Claus Köhnlein, MD and Dr. Samantha Bailey, MD

Torsten Engelbrecht, Dr. Claus Köhnlein, MD and Dr. Samantha Bailey, MD
Feb 16, 2022
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Why is it considered "settled science" among epidemiologists, virologists and the general public that certain diseases like Influenza and COVID-19 are transmitted through human contact, when in fact it has never been proven that diseases spread this way? For more than a century Germ Theory has had the dominance and authority of religious orthodoxy, yet a far more plausible explanation for how and why we get "infected" with certain illnesses is Terrain Theory, which illustrates that a multitude of environmental and genetic components combine to determine the incidence of disease in a population or individual. In the following essay, Torsten Engelbrecht, Dr. Claus Köhnlein, MD and Dr. Samantha Bailey, MD draw on material gathered in their extraordinary book Virus Mania to reveal the explanatory power of terrain theory.

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