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Department of Microbiology

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94143

8 /Apr i 1 / 85

TO: Members of the human retrovirus subcommittee of the Retrovirus

Study Group,

Now that the composition of our group is clear, I would urge each
of you to consider submitting specific proposals and to elicit proposals
from other interested and informed parties. Since public concern with
this issue is rather high (compared with its interest in matters usually
in the purview of the ICTV), I would ask that all proposals be submitted
by May 1st - May 15th at the latest.
with reality since I'll be out of the country until May 12th.)
I will circulate all the proposals for comment and consider the necessity
and options for discussion - e,g, by conference calls among selected
individuals with opposing views.

(This extension represents a compromise
                At that point

Please attempt to have proposals conform to the goals and format outlined
in my earlier mailing, One of our members-Max Essex - has suggested
the possibility of proposing names for viruses of non-human primates
related to the leukemia-lymphoma and AIDS viruses of man. I think this
could work quite well, and I invite further comments and proposals.

Sincerely,

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Harold E. Varmus, M.D.
American Cancer Society
Professor of Molecular Virology