Viruses are not infectious pathogens; they are a conceptual error in conventional medicine. What are diagnosed as “viral diseases” are, in most instances, ectodermal SBS healing phases.

The majority of symptoms conventionally attributed to viral infection are in fact the healing-phase responses of ectodermal tissues following the resolution of separation, territorial, or belonging conflicts. Associated self-devaluation programs in healing phase are also very often associated with the ectodermal program.

The origin of the idea of pathogenic viruses came about with the Germ Theory of Disease, established in the 19th century by the work of Louis Pasteur. Germ Theory posits that idiopathic symptoms (illnesses not caused by poisoning, injury, or malnutrition) are caused by microscopic infectious agents, including bacteria, fungi, and mycobacteria.

Pasteur borrowed the concept of the “virus” to fulfill Koch’s postulates when the Germ Theory of Disease failed at Postulate #1 when researchers could not find microscopic organisms to explain certain illnesses (particularly respiratory and skin conditions).

The word “virus” came from an old Latin term vīrus, meaning “poison,” “venom,” “slime,” or “noxious fluid.”

A simple lineage:

Latin vīrus
= poison, venom, noxious fluid, slime
        ↓
general sense of infectious poison
        ↓
modern virology
= infectious agent too small to be seen with microscope

In classical Latin, vīrus did not mean a microscopic infectious agent. It referred broadly to a harmful, poisonous substance, especially something liquid or slimy. The modern biological meaning came only after scientists could not identify visible microscopic agents in an individual who was sick.

The related adjective “viral” comes from the modern scientific use of virus. The word “virulent” is also related in meaning, from Latin virulentus, meaning “full of poison” or “poisonous.”

The majority of so-called “viral” illness are in fact the healing phase of ectodermal SBS programs: they affect tissues relayed through the cerebral cortex, associated with separation, territorial and belonging, and motor conflicts. Their characteristic pattern — sudden onset, fever, skin rash, respiratory symptoms, resolution within a predictable timeframe — matches precisely the profile of an ectodermal healing phase following conflict resolution.

Through understanding of the Fourth Biological Law, we know that bacteria, mycobacteria, and fungi are purposeful co-evolutionary partners whose activity is governed by the ontogenetic system of microbes. However, fungi, mycobacteria, and bacteria are not causative agents, and viruses, as conventionally understood, do not exist at all.

So-called “viral” illnesses appear in epidemic patterns because people within a shared social group will develop similar beliefs, desires, and aversions. As a result, an experience shared between them can lead to several people developing similar DHSs simultaneously. For example, a widespread territorial or separation conflict triggered by social upheaval, media, or collective fear could, with the removal of that perceived threat,  enter the healing phase for many individuals at similar times, producing the appearance of “contagion.”

In the example of Spanish Influenza in 1918-19 came after the first World War was finally over, soldiers had returned home, and economic prosperity began to return. At the time, households tended to have multiple generations, and the disease affected typically one household in three, or one person in four. The disease was particular in that it affected young men and women and left grandparents and children alone. The primary symptoms of the Spanish Influenza were:

• pneumonia/bronchitis: the healing phase after a territorial fear or a feminine scare-fright (pneumonia is bronchitis with an active existential conflict)
• lung tuberculosis: the healing phase after a death fright.

Refusal to accept conventional doctrine of pathogenic viruses is one of the most controversial aspects of Germanische Heilkunde and one that most directly challenges mainstream conventional medicine.