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Subject: Scary thought about AIDS
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 16:17:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 16:17:00 1985
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What if AIDS had been spreadable by mosquitos?  With its long incubation
period we'd almost all have it by now.  What if its virulence had been
higher, so almost everyone exposed to it caught it?  Those who get the
full symptoms die quickly, certainly, painfully.

Scary thoughts.  There is some relief in finding that AIDS is not that
easy to transmit, nor that easy to catch.  What about the next "new
disease"?  In our crowded, interactive world, is something worse than
AIDs -- possible?  likely?  inevitable?

Alan "hope not" Silverstein