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From: eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
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Subject: Re: Viral infections (San Joaquin Valley Fever).
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Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 16:50:44 EDT
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> Coccidiodomycosis (aka "valley fever" or "San Joaquin [Valley] fever")
> years.  Think you'd better create a new one if you're after a good
> racially-specific biological warfare agent.  Facts above from "Harrison's
> Principles of Internal Medicine, 8th Ed." and Robbins' "Pathologic
> Basis of Disease."  Regards, Paul Dolber (...duke!phs!paul).

1) This discussion should move out of followup.  Unless people are interested.
2) Biological agents come in several categories: lethal agent, incapacitants,
and so forth.  Coccidiodomycosis was supposedily for use as a chronic
incapacitant in contrast to something like Dengue Fever as an accute
incapacitant.  Different forms of anthrax and plague are obviously lethal
agents.  The disussion about things like SCA and maleria as weapons is
ridiculous: they would not good agents for a variety of reasons such
as mass production, virulence, and so forth.  My god, what am I say?
I beginning to sound like some of my Uncle's colleagues who used to work on
this stuff.

The above does not represent the viewpoint of my employer [not this part any
way].

--eugene