Winston Harvey Price was an American scientist and professor of epidemiology with a special interest in infectious diseases, who made media headlines in 1957, when he reported details of a vaccine for the common cold after isolating the first rhinovirus.
10 Facts About Winston Price
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Winston Price was acknowledged by the director of the Public Health Research Institute at the time.
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Winston Price had one older brother, Ira, and his father was a wealthy physician.
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Winston Price's family lived at 1565 Grand Concourse in the Bronx.
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Winston Price co-authored a paper that reported that Rickettsia rickettsii could be made avirulent by treatment with PABA.
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In 1953, when a cluster of nurses developed a mild respiratory illness, Winston Price took nasal passage samples and isolated the first rhinovirus, which he called the JH virus, named after Johns Hopkins.
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Winston Price did however clarify that "it's absolutely misleading if anyone thinks we are going to have an all-inclusive cure for colds".
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In Offit's book, Maurice Hilleman in the early 1960s, who later became an expert in vaccine research, is said to have disputed Winston Price's data as untrue and saying that "his study was a complete fraud".
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Journalist and author Susannah Cahalan, portrayed Winston Price as "obsessed with finding a cure for the common cold".
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Winston Price believed that most people naturally harbored microbes and that environmental factors such as cold weather triggered them to cause illness.