--- afra dias <[email protected]> wrote: > >Is Santosh saying that the Doctors and Hospitals in >UK are wasting their time and money blood-testing all >pregnant women in UK for this thalasaemia thingee? > >Have the Greek Clergy got it all wrong? >
I have no idea how what I have said leads Afra to ask the above questions. I am merely trying to correct some of the false information on Thalassemia provided by her. Jose has done this much better than I have. Are the doctors and hospitals in UK saying that Thalassemia is not a disease, that it was discovered 10 years ago, that without it the human population would have been wiped out, that it is an immune sytem, that the Greeks have it because Greece was tropical 15 million years ago, and that the protection it provides is the same as the immunity against plague (black death)? If they are saying all of the above then they are misinforming the public. If one reads the material provided by the UK National Health Service, this does not seem to be the case, at least insofar as the UK doctors and hospitals are concernced. I don't know what the Greek clergy are saying. Regarding antenatal screening for Thalassemia in the UK, detailed information about it is located at the following NHS website: http://www.kcl-phs.org.uk/haemscreening/ Additional general information about it can be obtained from the UK Thalassaemia Society at: http://www.ukts.org/ Cheers, Santosh
