NOBEL PRIZE WINNING AIDS RESEARCHER (SCIENTISTS) DAVID BALTI

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NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AIDS RESEARCHER (SCIENTISTS.) DAVID BALTIMORE. Typed Letter Signed, to Jeremy Bernstein, answering questions relating to an AIDS symposium: stating that gamma globulin does not contain AIDS virus, describing how the retrovirus of AIDS has become prevalent although it has likely been present for a long time, and noting that a retrovirus is not well-adapted for causing AIDS. 1 1/2 pages, 4to, "Whitehead Institute" stationery, written on two sheets; horizontal folds. Cambridge, 25 March 1985

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". . . The sole purpose . . . for any virus is to make more of itself. That is, the sole purpose of any organism on the earth, although human beings feel it is necessary to have a higher calling because we were born with a very self-conscious pride. To that end, the retrovirus of AIDS has become very successful in recent times. It seems to have taken advantage of . . . human social taboos. . . ."