From: avco@bilsen.dronf.mil
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.area51,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Area 51 -- actually germ warfare research

Sources tell me that area 51 has nothing to do with extraterrestrials but is where the U.S. engages in biological warfare experimentation (in violation of numerous laws and treaties -- but what else is new).

The "alien" angle is a convenient red herring for the U.S. government to use -- expect them to encourage this angle by allowing area 51 observers to photograph suspiciously sci-fi-looking objects and events (my goodness, those barrels are arranged just like crop circles!)

Conspiracy theorists are fond of asserting that HIV was created in the lab, but the truth is much stranger -- although eerily similar.

In 1983, researchers discovered a new sexually transmitted disease (it is now suspected that the disease itself surfaced as early as 1971). Mollusca credulis is the name of the disease (or the name of the symptom-cluster, if you're one of those people who doesn't want to call it a disease).

It causes temporary bumps in the genital area, and occasionally a slight fever. But people who have been infected display a strongly enhanced sex drive for months, years, or even perpetually after the initial symptoms have passed.

The idea of an agent capable of inducing widespread psychological and behavioral changes in a population has long been one of the dreams of biological/chemical warfare. The MK-Ultra project, most infamous for dosing unsuspecting people with LSD in tests of that substance as a mind-control agent, was discovered and driven underground at about the same time that mollusca credulis emerged.

Increasing the sex drive of a segment of the population doesn't really seem to help the powers-that-be a whole lot, so perhaps this was just an early lab experiment that escaped, or perhaps we haven't discovered all of the symptoms of mollusca yet.

You can find more information at: http://www.nepenthes.com/Sex/mollusca.html