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LEN: Now, who was studying that?ROBERT: That was isolated from the LSAF outside of NewOrleans.LEN: So Gallo wasn't the only one studying that virus?ROBERT: No, everybody was. These [cultures] were [widelydistributed]. If you go back and look at the veterinary literature,they were looking at all the BLV, bovine leukemia virus lines,bovine syncytium viruses, and bovine visna viruses. And all thesethings were being studied. . . .Well, at this point, they were still essentially noninvasive becausethey were restricted to animals. But, then what happened was inthe late '60s and early '70s they started growing these in humantissue. Early ResearchersLEN: Now when you say 'they,' can you be more specific interms of the labs that you're familiar with that were doing thiswork?ROBERT: Yeah, well virtually every lab in the world that wasdoing sophisticated lymphocyte studies. But particularly Galloand company at the NIH, ahh . . . ahh . . . actually there were onlya few guys you know - Gallo, Montagnier, a couple of guys thatare dead, Baltimore, [7] Teman, [8] and a few others and a fewveterinarians. . . . Dmochowski was interesting because he wasthe first one to show that you could basically adapt retroviruses todifferent mammalian species by growing them in the tissuecultures that you wanted them to go to. Now he's down in Texas.[9]Miller, in 1969, took bovine leukemia virus and injected it intochimpanzees, and the chimpanzees formed antibodies against thevirus. [10] So they concluded that these chimpanzees wereimmune. And so that was the decision for telling everybody thatbovine viruses in human beings posed no threat; which isrelatively true, there is a species barrier.Since the 1950s and even the 1940s Bumy, [11] Bobrow, [12]and all these guys from Europe said these [bovine] viruses poseda threat to humans, so they began a whole program of massextermination of cattle in Europe that carried BLV and otherviruses. [13]In this country, half of our herds are infected with BLV, BFC, orBVV, and the only thing that has prevented, in my opinion,everyone from dying of T-cell leukemia is the fact thatpasteurization of the milk kills viruses.Now if you look at the distribution of T-cell leukemia across theupper United States, from like Minnesota to Wisconsin, there's ahuge incidence of T-cell leukemia in dairy farmers. And if youactually look at some of the studies done in France, they foundthat guys working in meat-packing plants had a greater incidence