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- From: Christopher Currie <c.currie@CLUS1.ULCC.AC.UK>
- Subject: Re: AIDS and CAWKI
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- > Even the bubonic plague, which had a respiratory form, did not lead to
- > extinction.
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- That was because if you got the pneumonic form it killed you in a day or two,
- and you could no longer pass on the infection. If you caught a hypothetical
- 'respiratory HIV', and could transmit it by the same means, you would
- infect everyone you met over a period of years long before you developed
- symptoms. Unless genuine resistance to the virus was possible, it would
- lead to the extinction of all but very isolated populations. I suspect that
- some form of resistance would develop, indeed (as the discussion about
- children with HIV suggests) already exists.
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- Christopher
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