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To: RealMuLan who wrote (45040)	1/21/2004 6:42:58 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

KONG XI FA CAI! Yiwu!

To: RealMuLan who wrote (45040)	1/22/2004 3:33:30 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Yiwu, there's nothing new about using microbes in germ warfare. It's been done for eons, though largely ignorantly and inadvertently. Europeans brought diseases to New Zealand and other places which decimated the natives who had never had to contend with them. Perhaps you've heard of Montezuma's revenge. Similarly, Myxomatosis, a rabbit disease, was deliberately introduced to New Zealand a few years ago to kill rabbits, which it mostly did, but now the rabbits are increasingly immune. People carrying a virus but not suffering from it could easily take over from other people with different DNA profiles who couldn't cope with the disease, thereby propagating their genetic form. No need for swords or guns. There seems little point in that idea these days. We are increasingly globalized and cosmopolitan. Genetic warfare seems dated. Perhaps it was suitable for the 19th century, but even then, for the most part, it was in its death throes. They had a go at it in Rwanda and Germany in the 20th century. There's always a bit of it around. But for the most part, people nowadays understand that ethnic elimination isn't a bright idea. Mqurice PS: My theory, just invented, is that kissing is an act of violence to test the love interest by infecting them with each others' germs. If they aren't up to it, they are killed off by infection. If they pass the test, they are identified as being 'one of us' and suitable for further mating rituals. With the advent of AIDS, people have seen a very murderous infection. After a century, the women in Africa who don't suffer from it would propagate their DNA around the world.