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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
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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?
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	Mark of the Valley of Roses
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