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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,soc.culture.african.american
- Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 21:27:38 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.222416.5113@engage.pko.dec.com> <9706@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> <97795@netnews.upenn.edu> <1e90l1INNavh@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- In-reply-to: shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff)
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- In article <1e90l1INNavh@agate.berkeley.edu>, shirriff@sprite (Ken Shirriff) writes:
- >>>They felt that a more likely source was combination of the luekemia
- >>>causative agent and the visna virus found in sheep.
-
- >>And it's gibberish. Look at the sequences. It's not difficult.
-
- >If anyone wants a copy of the sequences, send me email, and then you
- >can compare the sequences yourself. There's no big coverup here:
- >HIV-1 is similar to SIV, HIV-2 is very similar to SIV, and neither
- >are similar to the human leukemia virus (HTLV) or bovine leukemia
- >virus (BLV) or sheep visna (OLV).
-
- A dendrogram comparing all these viruses and others, using the most
- highly conserved gene sequence (for reverse transcriptase), can be
- found in AIDS v6,#8, p771 (1992). Four SIV strains, two HIV, and
- visna are listed among others. I don't know what the "leukemia
- causative agent" is--their tree has a mouse and cow leukemia virus.
-
- HIV-1 is closest to one of the SIV's, HIV-2 to two SIV's, these all
- branch together with a fourth SIV. These form one branch, which are
- connected to another branch consisting of visna and another sheep
- virus, one goat virus, and a cat virus. This then branches with a
- horse and then a cow virus.
-
- > End of conspiracy theory.
-
- Hahahaha. You are speaking to monkey brains.
- --
- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
-