Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site aecom.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!aecom!werner From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) Newsgroups: net.bio Subject: Re: Re: race-specific CBW Message-ID: <1858@aecom.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 02:39:15 EDT Article-I.D.: aecom.1858 Posted: Fri Aug 16 02:39:15 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 08:15:05 EDT References: <191@tekig5.UUCP> <314@kitty.UUCP> <678@cybvax0.UUCP> Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY Lines: 17 > [Followups to net.bio] > > > all of you have heard of racially-specific diseases such as sickle cell > > anemia, Tay-Sachs disease, etc. ... > Sickle Cell anemia is NOT a racially specific disease. It is found in all parts of the world where malaria in endemic. That means Africa, but it also means the countries of the Mediteranean. In America, it is seen mostly in Blacks, true, but also in Sicilians, Italians and Greeks, most of whom are Caucasian. -- Craig Werner !philabs!aecom!werner "The world is just a straight man for you sometimes"