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...bizarre theory about the origins of AIDS has been getting play in the Soviet press lately: that the illness is the result of U.S. germ-warfare experiments gone wild. AIDS experts scoff at the farfetched notion, and Washington has accused the Soviets of waging a "disinformation campaign." U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman publicly protested a Pravda cartoon depicting a U.S. scientist and an officer exchanging a vial of AIDS viruses...
...ravages of viruses, if not the creatures themselves. Dried pustules on the mummified face of Ramses V testify to the fact that smallpox killed even the mighty in Egypt 3,000 years ago. In the 16th century, Spanish conquistadors may have unknowingly used viruses in a primitive form of germ warfare; they apparently supplied their intended victims, the Aztecs and the Incas, with blankets taken from houses with smallpox in Europe. Viruses helped cause a fiscal crisis in 17th century Holland, where infections of tulip bulbs produced a new variety of the flower with spectacular, rippling patterns of color...
...also at full flood nine years ago. "There are parallels between now and then," Jaroff says. "In the 1970s, even though the scientists themselves had set up some very strict guidelines, some people wanted to prohibit all gene-splicing research because of the remote chance that a Frankenstein germ might emerge from the laboratory. Now there are efforts to block tests of agricultural products in the open air for the same reason. The threat in 1977 turned out to be nonexistent, and the chances are that with caution and rationality, this one will...
...times as fast as the influenza bug. The rapid evolution of the deadly AIDS virus is a source of wonder to scientists. "We have not yet seen two viruses that are identical from two patients," says Dr. William Haseltine, a leading AIDS researcher at Harvard. Where did the deadly germ come from? Did it evolve from a less harmful variety? Last week reports from both sides of the Atlantic offered clues to the origins of the virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. More important, they suggested new approaches to stopping and preventing the disease, which has struck more than...
...fact, it is your rabid talk of overthrow that has given me the germ of an idea of how to fight your empire of evil...after all these years of hearing you blabber, I can exaggerate your comic-book Marxism to the point where it does nothing but damage to your cause...