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From: dmcanzi@watserv1.waterloo.edu (David Canzi)
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Subject: Re: HICN410 News -- excerpts.
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Date: 29 May 91 04:14:23 GMT
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In article <1991May28.144110.10846@cs.ucla.edu> John_Graves@cellbio.duke.edu (John Graves) writes:
>>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.
>[I] would certainly like more information than obtained 
>in your briefly worded summary.  

I didn't write it, I only excerpted it from HICN News (which is posted
in full in sci.med).  The university library doesn't have the Chicago
Tribune, so I couldn't look up Tribune article this is based on.

I'm going to comment based on my possibly unreliable memory.  What I
remember reading elsewhere is that the French researchers were claiming
that the American researchers did their research using virus samples
they had received from the French group.

This makes it likely that what the article means is that the virus
*samples* used by the American researchers originated in the Pasteur
Institute.  And somehow this got muddled, so it ended up sounding like
the French researchers were taking "credit" for starting the epidemic.

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