This is Off Topic to the HPV, but I just re-read Gail's remark:

"he had his last phoresis a week ago (that's where they harvest white bood cells for the post-inoculation immune response tests) -- a two-hour procedure that the Hopkins people try to make as pleasant as possible but it is hard to make pushing all your blood through a machine and then putting it back in really nice! The movies on a large-screen TV and the body-sized heating pad help."

If you know anyone who is in the habit of donating blood, phoresis is another way to do it, plus you can donate every two weeks if you wish (the cells don't store as well as whole blood, but the body recovers from the process much faster).

It's a way to catch up on videos for 'free' and do some good in the process <grinz> I used to be a regular phoresis donor until they decided to exclude donors who had lived in Europe/UK (Mad Cow concerns).