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Letter: Transplant pathogens

Published 2 November 2005

From M. Allworth

Your item on the pathosphere talks of new “biological weapons” being constantly created when microbes mingle (8 October, p 58). For some time I have been worried about a potential meeting place for pathogens, and the possibility that the transplantation of tissue between species or even people might provide such a “reservoir of development”.

Letchworth, Hertfordshire, UK

Issue no. 2524 published 5 November 2005

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