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Article: RESEARCHERS FIND VIRUS SIMILAR TO AIDS IN CATTLE
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- November 27, 1987
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Researchers have found a virus that produces an AIDS-like disease in cows, a discovery that could allow testing of AIDS drugs and vaccines in cattle rather than in scarce and expensive monkeys and chimpanzees.
"Whatever you develop in cows could potentially be applicable to the human situation - and they are more readily available than a lot of other species," said Matthew Gonda, a National Cancer Institute researcher who describes the new virus in Thursday's issue of the scientific journal Nature.
Furthermore, the new virus, which Gonda calls bovineimmunodeficiency-like virus or BIV, appears so far to be unable to infect ...