Time Magazine in 1957 while on one hand reporting the medical breakthrough of Philadelphia MS researcher Rose Ichelson's success of culturing "MS Spirochetes" from the cerebra spinal fluid of MS patients, they also quoted the MS society on disregarding her work in favor of the new found interest in viruses. The MS Society went on to say that MS cannot be an infection because it was not passed from person to person. (But then how could it be a viral infection?) The overwhelming enthusiasm of a post-polio vaccine public was in support of a viral cause of MS. It ruined Icheslson's career in MS research and all her records were lost in a town hall fire in 1964.
