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- From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
- Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.122123.26115@news.columbia.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 12:21:23 GMT
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- In article <98061@netnews.upenn.edu> weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
- >
- >Visna is in fact close enough that it was immediately connected to HIV.
- >Part of the confusion is that visna is much closer to HIV than HTLV-I
- >and HTLV-II, the other human T-cell retroviruses, and much was made of
- >this in the early 80s. (Recall that one of the early names for HIV was
- >HTLV-III.)
- >
- Isn't HTLV I or II (forget which) related to something called CJD, and also
- the animal disease "scabies" and something to do with misdiagnosed Alzheimer's
- disease?
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- cjl
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