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Yes, and you compared it to the development of antibiotics and the potential that they provided. (cross talk)

It has such a braod spectrum, and we take all that for granted like air and water.

Yes.

I mean if you have a fever, or if you have a sore throat ...

You and I have lived long enough to know that it wasn't taken for granted!

There were fights against penicillin that you wouldn't believe. You wouldn't believe all the fights against it. It took five years before everybody was convinced that it worked.

Exactly. Now this was an article in the New York Times last May, and it deals with another kind of interferon, and I wonder if you'd comment on it because you never have. It's called immune interferon.

Immune interferon has been worked on by Dr. Sam Baron at the University of Texas at Galveston, and he has always worked with mice, but somehow or other recently he