[2652] in Humor
Trojan Horse" computer virus infects humans!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Johanna Bobrow)
Fri Feb 5 12:26:15 1999
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 12:22:55 EST
From: Johanna Bobrow <johanna@MIT.EDU>
(From the Weekly World News, that Onion for trailer-park dwellers...)
[http://wwnonline.com/bm-016.htm]
CHICAGO, ILL. -- Concerned scientists say the dreaded "Trojan Horse"
computer virus has made the jump to humans -- and the brain-eating bug
may soon be sweeping through America, claiming even more human lives
than the AIDS epidemic!
An unidentified 38-year-old man known only as Patient Zero has been
diagnosed with the virus that had been heretofore found only in PCs.
"We've been dreading this day," said noted virologist Dr. Frederick
Attingale who made the terrifying diagnosis. "We knew it was only a
matter of time. That's how these things work.
"At some point, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome -- AIDS -- made the
jump from monkeys to man. Now, in a similar way, the Trojan Horse virus
has worked its way into the human population. Both viral transmissions
were bound to happen sooner or later."
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