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From: Rob.Carr@f53.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Rob Carr)
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Subject: Re: HIV as genetic weapon
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Date: 8 Jan 91 14:07:06 GMT
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This month's Discover has an article in it confirming the incident in the
'50s.  I'm surprised to see that it says that HIV is only a 150 years old,
but maybe I'm wrong.  Or maybe it's wishful thinking.  If HIV is a couple
thousand to a couple hundred thousand years old, that means that some humans
have learned to live with it and may give us a clue as how to slow it down.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is that, if the Pentagon actually wanted
money to design a virus like HIV, they're wasting their time.  We don't have
the technology.  We don't have the insight.  We wouldn't even know where
to start.

Now it is possible that the military found a naturally occuring virus (HIV)
and spread it.  But in a disease that has an incubation period of up to 10
years without seroconversion and takes so long to kill, I doubt that the
military has the patience or the brains to figure it out.  Picture it:
Inject someone with a virus.  And nothing happens.  And nothing happens.
For (let's be conservative) 3 years, nothing happens.  Or even worse, you
give the patient (sic) (sick?) the virus, he comes down with a mild cold
(fever, etc) and gets better.

Never happen.  No "head in the sand."  Just "It doesn't make sense."

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