One Virus Particle Is Enough To Cause Infectious Disease.

In the Proceedings of the Royal Society [Proc. R. Soc. B, 2009; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0064] an experiment seems to show that a single viral particle can cause infection in an insect., Now the press will probably mislead us into one more mass fear of viral infection. Insects are not primates, nor humans. Nothing the experiment tells us whether an infection by one or few particles of a virus leads to disease or antibody development and prevention of disease. Another experiment that probably should not reach the general media.