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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:47 AM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: Spanish flu <snip> Hold the phone! Sickle cell anemia is a genetic disease found only in Africans and their descendants, <snip>
Not true, it is also relatively common in parts of southern Europe, especially Italy where malaria was common until the 20th century (one of the reasons why the Popes wanted to move to France for a while during the middle ages)
Elizabeth -------------------------------------------- Elizabeth Walpole Canberra Australia ewalpole[at]tpg.com.au http://au.geocities.com/amiperiodornot/ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
