He did inoculate a certain number of tubes, but also noticed there were some that weren’t used at all. He got a sample of a mouse brain that had been infected with the Herpes virus and decided to add it to the few remaining tubes. He had hoped that the virus would grow in the few last test tubes. However, Weller did notice, the varicella cultures weren’t growing but the Herpes cultures did.
This major development was indeed something that did help to facilitate vaccine research in a major way and did permit the development of various vaccines against Herpes. … Read the rest