From: michael@neuron6.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael Rivero)
Subject: Re: Query: Document on AIDS as a biotech mistake?
Organization: JPL Pasadena CA
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 04:21:51 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.230935.26107@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1istfiINNgn0@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> lwb@cs.utexas.edu (Lance W. Bledsoe) writes:
>>In article <C0M0sJ.M8q@iat.holonet.net> timper@iat.holonet.net (Tim Perkis) writes:
>>>I'm looking for a document which I've heard exists but never have seen.
>>>Supposedly an(East) German biochemist wrote a technical report on why
>>>he thought HIV was a synthetic virus. 
>>
>>I have a transcript of a talk by Dr. Struecker (sp) that is similar to 
>>this.  I will re-post it sometime soon (I posted it appx. 1 year ago).
>
>Do either of these people explain how HIV was synthesized in the 1950's,
>when the first cases of AIDS arose, years before genetic engineering
>existed?
>
>Sheesh, John Birch, now the Strecker theory.  Do you have a skeptical
>bone in your body, Lance?


  Did you know the word 'gullible' isn't in the dictionary?  :)

  Seriously, there are some aspects of the AIDS virus which support the
theory that it was an accidental creation of the smallpox campeigns.

  First, viruses tend to be very specieis specific. The virus that
causes feline leukemia, a retrovirus, cannot survive in humans, docgs
or anything other than a cat. Those few viruses which ARE able
to leap the species barrier can always re-infect the original species.
AIDS, supposedly from the Green Vervot Monkee, will not infect
that creature. 

  If one draws a map of the most intense smallpox immunization programs conducted
by the World Health Organization, it coincides with the locals where early
outbreaks of AIDS were detected to a rather high degree. 

  Whereas the AIDS virus does not look anything at all like any viruses
in the aforementioned monkees, it does bear a marked similarity to
both sheep vishnu (sp) visrus and bovine leukemia virus, both of which
could have easily been present but undetected in the 1950's smallpox
manufacturing process.

  Finally, what makes the AIDS virus so difficult to detect is it's rapid
mutation, with up to 10% of the genome changing  within a single generation. That kind of instability indicates a very very VERY recent and radically
different lifeform, as most viruses which are found in nature have been
around long enough to have stabilized the genome.

  For me, the inability to re-infect the supposed host animal and the
similarity to the sheep/bovine viruses present in the cowpox/smallpox
vaccine manufacturing pretty much sums up the case.

  We were all worried about a human overpopulationwreaking the biosphere. 
Looks like we may have been premature in that particular concern!

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Michael Rivero michael%neuron6@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov
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