Company searches for centenarian genes

[Karl Anderson]

"Gordon Mohr" <gojomo@usa.net> writes:

> I plug it here every so often, let me do so again: check 
> out David Brin's short story, "The Giving Plague", in the
> collection "Otherness". The premise is a undetected virus 
> that makes people more interested in selfless activities 
> like giving blood.
> 
> Others have speculated viruses are linked to mental
> illnesses, mood disorders, and other social behaviors,
> good or bad.

Sounds similar to _The Consciousness Plague_:

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue255/books2.html

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Karl Anderson      kra@monkey.org           http://www.monkey.org/~kra/