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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Query: Document on AIDS as a biotech mistake?
- Message-ID: <106044@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 20:50:05 GMT
- References: <1993Jan12.230935.26107@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan13.042151.865@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <105497@netnews.upenn.edu> <C14IGs.Er7@demon.co.uk>
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- Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- In-reply-to: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
-
- In article <C14IGs.Er7@demon.co.uk>, gtoal@pizzabox (Graham Toal) writes:
- >:Yes. Probably because sterilization (by a flame) was pretty poor and
- >:probably not always done. The injectors were used over and over again,
- >:with maybe 20 seconds between shots on a good day.
-
- >Wait a sec - aren't we talking about that time when there was a fad for
- >those star-trek style air-pressured injectors? The ones that they
- >discovered a few years later were *really* nasty for cross-infecting?
-
- You got it! They were abandoned at the time as breaking down too often
- in the field. In general, all the methods were probably crossinfective
- to a high degree. Ten years ago, I would have read the description of
- operators immunizing 1000 or 2000 people in one day and been amazed.
- Now, in light of the rapid rise of the AIDS epidemic in central Africa,
- I read it and instead I am horrified.
- --
- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
-