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From: jfh@netcom.COM (Jack Hamilton)
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Subject: Re: Animals as HIV vectors
Message-ID: <1991May6.005925.4374@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: 5 May 91 20:02:41 GMT
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In article <1991May3.105458.7668@cs.ucla.edu> tmb@ai.mit.edu (Thomas M. 
Breuel) writes:
>That's false. HIV can replicate in several other species besides
>humans. There is, in fact, increasing evidence that precursors of
>the HIV virus may have been transmitted to humans independently
>several times in this century and before.

I'd be interested in hearing references for your first assertion.  
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