Emerging Viruses-Aids & Ebola - By Leanard ... - preterhuman.net

- - - - -Fig 6.2 - A Model of the Nucleic-Acid Molecule:PENDINGThe drawing at the left shows the double helix; in the center aportion of it is shown in detail (omitting the hydrogen atoms); atthe right is a detail of the nucleotide combinations. Source:Asimov I. The Intelligent Man's Guide To Science. Volume II,The Biological Sciences. Basic Books, 1960. p.532. Reprintedwith permission.- - - - -Fig 6.3 - Replication of the AIDS Virus - HIV/CD4 CellInteraction:PENDINGSource: Germain RN. Antigen processing and CD4+ T celldepletion in AIDS. 'Cell' 1998;54:441-414- - - - -Galloʹs Cancerous CreationsIn 1971, the year following the $10 million DOD appropriationfor the development of AIDS-like viruses,s the NCI acquired thelion's share of the Fort Detrick facilities, and the Cell ThmorBiology Laboratory's output increased as measured by thepublication of eight scientific articles by Gallo and his coworkerscompared to at most four in previous years.Among Gallo's earliest reports was the discovery that by adding asynthetic RNA and cat leukaemia virus "template" to "humantype C" viruses - those associated with cancers of the lymphnodes - the rate of DNA production (and subsequent provirus andvirus reproduction) increased as much as thirty times. Gallo andcompany reported that such a virus may cause many cancersbesides leukaemias and lymphomas, including sarcomas. [10]Regarding Gallo's widely accepted 1983 speculation that theAIDS virus arose from an African monkey virus that naturallyjumped species and then was carried by Portugese seamen toJapan (see fig. 6.4), in 1971 he and his team published aseemingly conflicting statement. "Only one virus [of 27 thenknown RNA retroviruses] which contains reverse transcriptase,"they wrote, "does not seem to be oncogenic [cancer causing]" -the simian foamy virus. [10]At the time, simian foamy viruses were known to be common,humanly benign, vaccine contaminants. Had the simian virussimply jumped species then, I considered, it is doubtful it would