Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 17:07:07 From: Madalynn <YertleTheTurtle-AT-ulink.net> Subject: RE: twen-cen blues Of course not. Sickle-cell anemia is recessive. Someone can be a carrier for sickle-cell anemia--and be more or less immune to malaria--without actually having the disease. At 07:16 PM 1/21/00 -0500, exfiltration wrote: >sickle-cell anemia or malaria? Is that what you are saying? > >-ex > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-anarchy-list-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >> [mailto:owner-anarchy-list-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu]On Behalf Of >> Madalynn >> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 15:37 >> To: Jerald Hellemeyer; anarchy-list-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >> Subject: Re: twen-cen blues >> >> >> At 01:20 PM 1/21/00 CST, Jerald Hellemeyer wrote: >> >collin writes: >> > >> >>why aren't we immunising sub-saharan africa against malaria? >> > >> >Because there isn't a malaria vaccine. Malaria is not a virus. It's a >> >parasitic micro-organism. This makes it impossible to develop a natural >> >immunity >> >> not so. carriers of sickle-cell anemia are naturally resistant to malaria >> >
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