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Q1. How did you originally choose medicine as a career?


Q2. Why did you start writing books about infectious disease?


Q3. Why was the initial response to your first book on tuberculosis unfavorable?


Q4. Why is the first chapter in Virus X titled "The Age of Delusion"?


Q5. How do new infectious diseases find their way into the human population?


Q6. Where did the HIV (AIDS) virus come from?


Q7. Do you think there are other viruses involved in AIDS other than HIV?


Q8. Do you think there is a chronic infectious disease plague already simmering in our midst?


Q9. What is your view of the effectiveness of vaccines?


Q10. Why hasn't an aggressive virus like Ebola caused a more wide-spread problem in the human population?


Q11. What is your view of the recently identified stealth viruses?


Q12. Will the mapping of the human genome improve our treatments for viral illnesses?


Q13. What is your perspective on Mad Cow disease?


Q14. Why do you think there is resistance at government agencies to the new findings on chronic disease?


Q15. Do you have any suggestions for humans to protect themselves against viral threats?


Q16. How does money from vested interests influence what we develop as treatments for disease?


Q17. What viruses do blood banks screen for?


Q18. What do you think about using broad-spectrum antibiotics to treat Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?