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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Viral infections:  Modern medicine seems virtually helpless!
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 16:40:33 EDT
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kitty!larry (Larry Lippman) says:
> 	Various governments (the U.S. included) have been quietly but seriously
> investigating the creation of *racially-specific* microorganisms, including
> viruses which will affect only persons of a specific race.  I am certain that
> all of you have heard of racially-specific diseases such as sickle cell
> anemia, Tay-Sachs disease, etc.

	The two examples you give are genetic disorders, not infectious
diseases.  However, I have no doubt that the U.S. government is funding
this type of research.  We occasionally joke about submitting just such a
research proposal as a sure-fire way to get funding.

	Now, if we could just come up with a virus which only attacks the
idiots in the government and the military that insist we need more guns,
tanks, planes, ships, bombs and missles (not to mention chemical and
biological weapons), we could all go back to doing whatever it is we were
put here to do.
-- 
Roy Smith 
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016