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From: steve@ea.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Man made virus?
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Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 17:03:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  9 17:03:00 1986
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Nf-From: ea.UUCP!steve    Jan  9 16:03:00 1986


The current level of technology in genetic virology would not support the
development of a virus like the one that we are dealing with in AIDS. We
simply don't have enough understanding of how to grow and manipulate these
to engineer them in the lab. I might believe it if this were a relative
of some of the more widely studied pests (Herpies type I or II, Epstien-
Barr, or perhaps SV40  or Poliovirus). This one is *weird* and is very
difficult to manipulate in the laboratory. We should be more worried that
antibodies to this critter have been sampled in misquitoes...

	"know what I mean Vern?..."

	Steve Blasingame
	mtxinu!ea!steve