ocr: of medical researchers, Bob Olmsted, a could tell, the virus was not killing or harm- senior fellow with the National Institutes ing the animals we watched. They were in of Health, announced his determination of fact living to: ripe old ages. the DNA sequence of the feline immuno- deficiency virus (FIV), which causes the HOW: DO WILD CATS avoid the death sentence immune system of domestic cats to collapse. FIV confers on domestic cats? In the wild Over coffee Bob and I wondered aloud the disease-inducing virus was: somehow what would happen if FIV. jumped to wild neutralized in the descendants ...