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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Viral infections:  Modern medicine seems virtually helpless!
Message-ID: <655@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 15:57:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: psivax.655
Posted: Thu Aug 15 15:57:18 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 22:34:22 EDT
References: <191@tekig5.UUCP> <401@phri.UUCP>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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Summary: 

In article <401@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>
>> Go ahead, get upset about AIDS - How would you like to see an AIDS virus
>> that DOES spread like the common cold?  Or a rabies virus? And I don't hear
>> any screaming and yelling about it.
>
>	Where have you been lately?  Actually, the media is doing the
>screaming and yelling.  The scientific community has been quietly doing the
>research and has identified and characterized the AIDS virus within the
>space of a year, thanks to the new biotechnology that emerged from basic
>research.
>
	Exactly! And using that same biotechnology I expect to see a
vaccine(and *perhaps* a cure) for AIDS in another year, or two at
most!

>
>	This is such a patently untrue statment, I don't know where to
>begin to argue with it.  You seem to imply that the noise is proportional
>to the effort.  Herpes and AIDS are two of the hottest fields in medical
>research.
>
	Oh, and cancer as well!
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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