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Old 17-October-2005, 11:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Tunga
I just hope the next time a pandemic occurs, that we do not blindly attribute the cause without due diligence. Large areas of medical science still borders on the unknown. And one man's retrovirus is another man's mycobacteria.

http://www.sumeria.net/aids/001PDF~1.PDF
With new lab techniques that allow easy genetic ID and mapping of organisms, this is much less likely to happen.
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