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Subject: Re: (3130) Re: Animals as HIV vectors
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Date: 6 May 91 14:03:15 GMT
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On Sun, 5 May 91 18:02:29 pdt Support Account for SCI.MED.AIDS said:
>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.
>--
>Jack Hamilton         jfh@netcom.com         apple!netcom!jfh

I believe it's been asserted that there is a feline version as well as
a story in the New York Times Science section (Tuesdays) that research
was under way to investigate what may have been a bovine version, known
to the Chinese for many years now--this latter story caused a lot of
interest because they developed an herbal cure.  N.B.-this is not related
to the story of a single Chinese herb cure which made the rounds off-and-on
during the last year to eighteen months.

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