X-Message-Number: 3601
From:  (David Stodolsky)
Subject: CRYONICS: Re: CRYONICS marketing
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 95 11:58:12 +0100 (CET)


In Regards to your letter <>:
> > The key question is motivational. Someone who has been tested HIV
> > positive knows they have about 12 years of life left, at the most.
> 
> Not necessarily.  Diseases tend to become less deadly with time, due
> to natural selection of the infectious agent.  Also, there's a good

This is not really relevant to this discussion, but the statement
is not generally correct. See:

Herre, E. A. (1993). Population structure and the evolution of virulence 
in nematode parasites of fig wasps. Science, 259, 1442-1445.

Yoon, C. K. (1993). What might cause parasites to become more virulent. 
Science, 259, 1402.

dss


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