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Eerie Coincidences (Score:2)

by ziggy (25) on 2002.08.03 15:23 (#11366) Journal

It's eerie how closely this news story matches the plot of a novella [amazon.com] written by Norman Spinrad in the early years of the AIDS epidemic. His story is so obviously about AIDS, even though he never mentions the name of this disease. Somehow, Spinrad manages to be both politically correct and salacious at the same time. (All in all, it's no great shame that the book is out of print...)
The gist of the story is that the epidemic began to fade once a mutant strain of the virus developed in a prostitute; it was both more virulent (killing other strains of the virus) and didn't cause any symptoms whatsoever in the host.

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