yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu (Brian Yamauchi) (09/20/89)
In article <929@paperboy.OSF.ORG> coren@osf.org writes: >I think there's a tendency to forget what the "ID" in "AIDS" stands >for. It isn't "the virus" (if there is indeed such a thing) that kills >you; it's the things that get you because your immune system isn't >functioning. Back in the 70s, there was a lot of publicity about "the boy in the plastic bubble" -- a child who was born with a non-functional immune system and lived in a sterile environment. Why can't the same type of controlled environment be used to prevent AIDS victims from contracting (other) infections? _______________________________________________________________________________ Brian Yamauchi University of Rochester yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu Computer Science Department _______________________________________________________________________________