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From: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re:  Really CBW (E. coli && AIDS)
Message-ID: <2307@flame.warwick.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 13:20:21 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 22 13:20:21 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Aug-85 00:43:06 EDT
References: <191@tekig5.UUCP> <314@kitty.UUCP> <800@abnji.UUCP> <4144@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker)
Organization: VLSI Group, Warwick University, UK
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In article <4144@alice.UUCP> jj@alice.UUCP writes:
>While the idea of CBW is so transparently ghastly that I
>can readily imagine a fanatic somewhere crossing E-Coli
>with AIDS, and doing in warmblooded creatures of all types,

Difficult.  Our good friend E. coli is a bacterium, whereas HTLV III
(the thing currently suspected of bringing about AIDS) is a virus.

These are very different sorts of creatures;  'crossing' (in the genetic
sense) isn't possible.

However, it might well be possible (and, heaven help us, feasible) to
discover *why* HTLV III infection can lead to AIDS, and, with that
knowledge, modify a common gut or skin bacterium to have a similar effect.

Anyone out there who is involved in this sort of thing?  If so, you
should damn well be ashamed of yourselves.

							Kay.
-- 
"A boy does not put his hand into his pocket until every other means of
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