Do not forget, we had not seen a new virus in the
blood supply in thirty years, and retroviruses did not cause human disease,
we thought, with the possible exception of T-cell leukemia. So these were
all disturbingly new concepts. A disease with an incubation period of
ten years, or seven years at the time, whatever was believed. A retrovirus.
A disease that was transmitted by blood, but was not seen in these other
situations.
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