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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: net.bio
Subject: Re: Re: race-specific CBW
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Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 02:39:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 16 02:39:15 1985
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> [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.


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				Craig Werner
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