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From: "Marc Dufour" <emdx@ac*.ne*>
Organization: 3615-CUL
To: techdiver@terra.net
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 23:22:06 -5
Subject: Re: Larium anti-malaria and DCI

Le/On23 Sep 96 @ 18:51, vous ecrivites/you wrote:

> 
>   Peter , speaking of malaria, is it not true that people with cycle
>   cell 
> predisposition are uneffected by malaria? Would that by any
> coincidence have to do with the fact that they come from the area
> wher the worst malaria exists (geneticly), and would  that not tell
> us something about the intent of the protection mechanisim. 

It is not due to a protection mechanism, but rather because the 
microbe responsible for the propagation of malaria cannot survive in 
someone with sickle cell anemia.

Is there a doctor in the audience?

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