Some people have severe chemical exposures, for example, and those are not treated at all by the antibiotic regimen. Other people have viruses that are very important in the etiology of their illnesses and those aren't touched by the antibiotics, although recently, we found a combination of antivirals and the antibiotics. In fact, there are 2 or 3 physicians that are using this now in various parts of the country, in Toronto, for example, and in various locations, and these have proved to be very effective and that might go along with the idea that these diseases are multifocal. They're caused by a number of different insults on the body and viruses are one of the insults. These primitive mycoplasma are another insult.
Chemicals are another insult.
And so we kind of have to treat these in combination to really get the maximun affect. Now, you had mentioned to me when we were talking on the telephone previously, at another time, that in the Gulf War Syndrome, that the mycoplasma might be genetically altered. Dr. Nicolson Well, this is quite different from what we found in the civilian populations of the US and Canada. We couldn't find any of the other genes, so it wasn't that the HIV virus entered the mycoplasma somehow. It appears as if a part of this gene or the whole gene, we don't think the whole gene but a part of it, may have been placed into the bacteria or the mycoplasma to increase its pathogenicity.