Ahh the new yorker, just when you think it is all about classy journalism, confusing cartoons and political insights, they drop some mad retrovirus knowledge on you. Hooking you up with information about: hiv’s ingenious ability to mutate before we can figure out what the hell its doing, DNA evolution through absorbing viruses, bird flu, virus caused cancers, and the article even mentions the plague….. If this was Fox News I would totally put up some graphic about how if you don’t read this article you will die from all these diseases, and then I would (insert scare tactic here).
Oh and it also talks about how chimps are easily infected by the AIDS virus but never get sick….wait…what…really……..yeah.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/03/071203fa_fact_specter
