[riri]

Mother Abigail put forward a quasi theory early on. That we could be looking at a "fast acting" AIDS type of illness and that what the lab people were seeing were remanants of opportunistic type infections. What is your take on that?

[_Jim]

remanants of opportunistic type infections.

Opportunistic fits right in there - weakening a patient with a 'primary' disease opens up the patient for other contagion currently 'repressed' and residing at lower-population levels ...