Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site phri.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!timeinc!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Viral infections: Modern medicine seems virtually helpless! Message-ID: <406@phri.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 16:40:33 EDT Article-I.D.: phri.406 Posted: Wed Aug 14 16:40:33 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 16:13:25 EDT References: <191@tekig5.UUCP> <314@kitty.UUCP> Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 21 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 SmithSystem Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016