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From: John_Graves@cellbio.duke.edu (John Graves)
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Subject: Re: HICN410 News -- excerpts.
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In article <1991May27.154130.19915@cs.ucla.edu> 
dmcanzi@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (David Canzi) writes:
> AIDS MYSTERY REPORTEDLY SOLVED:
> 
>    The mystery of the origin of the world's  first  known  AIDS  virus,  
whose
> discovery was claimed by both French and American researchers,  has 
apparently
> been solved,  according to  a  report  in  Sunday's  Chicago  Tribune.  
French
> scientists  at Paris' Pasteur Institute say they are now virtually 
certain the
> virus originated in their laboratories.

This is a very confusing posting.  Does this mean that HIV was isolated 
and identified in the French Pasteur Institute first and not be Dr. Robert 
Gallo at NIH.  If so the French claim would not be anything new and 
instead would be a breaking of previous agreements about joint independent 
credit for identifying HIV.

If on the other hand this does indeed mean that HIV was produced in the 
Pasteur lab, this would be quite an important admission of guilt for 
having started this epidemic out of a piece of lab work.  I doubt that 
this is the case but would certainly like more information than obtained 
in your briefly worded summary.  

Please explain what this paragraph means both literally and politically.  
Thanks.

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