Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site aoa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!bbnccv!bbncca!aoa!mbr From: mbr@aoa.UUCP (Mark Rosenthal) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Viral infections: Modern medicine seems virtually helpless! Message-ID: <221@aoa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 11:02:10 EDT Article-I.D.: aoa.221 Posted: Wed Aug 14 11:02:10 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 01:03:29 EDT References: <191@tekig5.UUCP> <314@kitty.UUCP> Reply-To: mbr@aoa.UUCP (Mark Rosenthal) Organization: Adaptive Optics Assoc., Cambridge, Mass. USA Lines: 14 Summary: In article <314@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes: > Not only is it possible *today* to engineer a virus which will produce, >say, cobra venom, but it is possible to take it a step further... > 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. Think about this a minute... Can you provide sources which will confirm this allegation? -- Mark of the Valley of Roses ...!{decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!aoa!mbr