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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: What homing device does a virus use?
- Message-ID: <17491@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 15:14:33 GMT
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- In article <1e8fusINNqmc@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:
- >-*----
- >There are several viruses (some, but not all, strains of herpes,
- >HPV, etc.) that cause sores or growths on the skin *around* the
- >mouth or the skin *around* the genitalia, though not in the mouth
- >itself or on the genitalia directly. In the case of a virus that
- >directly infects the mouth or genitalia, I can understand the
- >specificity as a preference for tissue type. But in the other
- >case, how does a virus distinguish skin *around* the genitalia
- >(for example) from skin around the belly button or around the ear?
- >
- The same way that plant seeds distinguish soil from rocks: they don't,
- but there are so many of them.
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- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "I have given you an argument; I am not obliged
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