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From: well!mandel@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Tom Mandel)
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Subject: Re: HIV Infection and Chaos
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Date: 7 Oct 89 21:57:14 GMT
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Chaos theory may be useful generally to the study of how diseases
spread (epidemiology) but there is no reason to think that it has
any special benefits in explaining the unfolding of the HIV
epidemic (over explaining the evolution of any epidemic).

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--Tom Mandel	mandel@well.sf.ca.us	mandel@unix.sri.com

[Opinions expressed, if any, are not those of the WELL or SRI International.]