"Tiny Human Ferret"  wrote
in message
news:422E2BDF.5000601{at}earthops.net...
> David Goldberg wrote:
> >
> > Avenger wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >>Not necessarily. As far as we know only Europeans(about 10% of them)
carry
> >>the Delta 38 gene mutation. The plagues(beginning in 1380) wiped out
over
> >>3/4 the population of Europe but it was discovered recently that some
people
> >>were immune if they carried 2 copies of the Delta 38 mutation, and only
> >>became ill and recovered if they carried 1 copy. After the plague the
> >>healthy people bred and passed it on but over the centuries it has
become
> >>diluted. This same mutation will also give immunity to AIDS for some
unknown
> >>reason. You can easily be tested so it doesn't matter how often you're
> >>exposed to the AIDS virus because it cannot get inside the cells due to
the
> >>fact that there are no receptors. Almost all of the AIDS is in Africa
and
> >>spreading to Asia.
> >>
> >
> >
> > LOL
> >
> > This is one of the dumbest things I've ever read on Usenet.
Congratulations.

LOL

Then you obviously don't read or know very much. I should have also added,
although it's not mentioned in the link to PBS, that some of the reason for
this gene mutation being common in Europe could also be due to a series of
Smallpox epidemics





> >
> >
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> http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_plague/
>
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