IV vs. E

[Mark Jude Hyman]

Henry McDaniel) wrote:
>> The ironic thing about all of this is that the MOST dangerous
>> disease known to man is freely rampaging through the whole

Dwight followed:
>There can certainly be a valid argument against your opinion that AIDS is 
>"the MOST dangerous disease".  It's been given a BL3 rating, the 
>hemorrhagic fever viruses are BL4.  HIV is actually relatively hard to
>contract compared with the filoviruses.

Actually, HIV only has a BL3 rating when grown in large quantity, in human
cells, or in animal infections. Most lab work with HIV is only BL2.

-Mark-
Division of Molecular Virology
Baylor College of Medicine