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and national virus laboratories have been held, one in Atlanta in1967, one in Prague in 1968, and one in Dakar in 1968. At thesemeetings most of the time was devoted to laboratory bench work.They were designed not only to disseminate information onrecent advances and on new techniques but also to foster closerrelations between regional reference centres andnationallaboratories." [23]"Isn't that nice," Jackie observed, "'closer relations' and germwarfare method and material exchanges between NATO alliesand communist bloc countries at the height of the cold war,"After another hour of reading, Jackie said "I'm going to bed. Areyou coming?""Wait till you read this," I replied,"Haven't you had enough for one day?""You know the theory that a simian monkey bite caused anAfrican to get AIDS," I said, Well here's a report by two doctorsfrom San Antonio that suggests that the simian may have firstbeen bitten by a Texan,""What?"I showed her the article and pointed to the section that explainedthat in 1969, WHO encouraged researchers to use simianmonkeys as "animals phylogenetically close to man," [21] Theyrecommended establishing "bio-medical systems that will permitthe evaluation of different zoonoses [infections or infestationsshared in nature by man and lower animals to] . . . yieldinformation on human disease," [21]"WHO scientists were concerned about the potential risks ofintroducing 'a new group or species' of such animals into researchsince this might be 'potentially dangerous' for both the animalsand the investigators," I explained, "They noted that an 'exchangeof organisms' might occur from the laboratory into natureaffecting both animals and man that, 'in most instances, result ininapparent and latent infections rather than in overt illness,' Here,read this,""No, I'm tired, Read it to me in bed,"We marched off to the bedroom, got settled, and then I began toread, "It says here that 'overt human and non-human illness ispossible,' as it apparently occurred with 'Herpesvirus simiaedisease, Yaba-like disease, and haemorrhagic disease, theoutbreak in Germany associated with African green monkeys,and the spread of a number of bacterial infections,' " [21]"This is nightmare material," Jackie protested,"Wait," I continued to read:"The importance of such occurrences is enhanced by the fact thatsimians come from diverse geographical areas. A possibilityexists, therefore, that new and exotic agents may be transportedinternationally, introducing an unrecognized clinical syndromeinto the animal colonies and perhaps into the human populationas well. Thus, while the use of non-human primates in certain