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From: jeg@ptsfa.UUCP (John Girard)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re:  Really CBW (E. coli && AIDS)
Message-ID: <840@ptsfa.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 15:31:58 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 15:31:58 1985
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References: <191@tekig5.UUCP> <314@kitty.UUCP> <800@abnji.UUCP> <4144@alice.UUCP> <2307@flame.warwick.UUCP>
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Summary: Regrettably, viruses and bacteria can be "crossed."  Hepatitis virus has been joined to E. Coli genes to produce an unlimited supply of lethal virus for research.  Heard in Mol. Bio. class UCB 1981

In article <2307@flame.warwick.UUCP>, kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker) writes:
> 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.

> Anyone out there who is involved in this sort of thing?  If so, you
> should damn well be ashamed of yourselves.
> 			... mcvax!ukc!warwick!flame!kay