Re: RC: EPM

["C.M.Newell" <reshan@deyr.ultranet.com>]

At 01:07 PM 4/14/99 -0700, you wrote:
 I QUOTED an article that label
>EPM as equine aids.  
	It was not apparent from your post that you were quoting anything, and it
doesn't change the fact that it isn't at all accurate.
	 It is screamingly incorrect if it equates EPM with AIDS. If you want to
draw *any* parallels between human HIV and equine diseases, try EIA--at
least both of those are retroviruses.
	EPM causes a neurologic syndrome by virtue of aberrant migration in the
CNS of a nonstandard host. It is not transmissible from horse to horse.
	HIV infects the cells of the immune system of a specific host. It is
transmissible from human to human.
	Big differences.



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