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...possibilities for study in animals far exceeds that in humans, yet researchers consistently failed in their efforts to reproduce AIDS in laboratory animals. Now, nearly a year later, scientists have announced a victory: the isolation of a previously unknown virus that appears to cause the disease known as simian AIDS. The discovery may provide a crucial clue to the cause of the mysterious human disease...
Using an electron microscope, a team of researchers at the University of California at Davis isolated the virus from the blood of monkeys infected with simian AIDS. In the current issue of Science, Virologist Preston Marx and his colleagues report that when the virus was injected into healthy monkeys, the animals developed the disease. The virus belongs to a family known as retroviruses, which are prime suspects as the cause of human AIDS. Said Marx of the discovery: "It gives us a marvelous opportunity to understand how a specific virus can attack the immune system and destroy...
...Davis team now hopes to produce a vaccine that will protect monkeys from simian AIDS...
Scientists debating what light the finding sheds on human AIDS have two major questions: How similar is simian AIDS to the illness that affects humans...
...film is only truly funny when it ridicules the macho man mentality. Hiding from the law, Albin must give up women's clothes and behave like "a real man." It's startling to see Serrault in overalls, sticking out his jaw, adopting a simian gait and snarling "Faggot!" at a rude driver. Later, when the aggressively hetero band of agents wants to guard the couple while remaining inconspicuous, they don dresses and uni-sex apparel. Renato teaching the tough guys how to walk effeminately creates a wonderful parallel to the scene in the first La Cage in which he tried...