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  Richard Soderberg <richard@mi*.mi*.ki*.se*> wrote (Subject: Thalassemia
minor
and diving):-
> I'm doing medicals on divers and prospective divers and have come across
> a man with thalassemia minor who has signed up for a PADI OW course. ...

  I read that the real natural purpose of thalassaemia is that the malaria
parasite doesn't grow properly in thalassaemic blood. That is why thalassaemia
is common where malaria is or was endemic.

> |               "I love the smell of a BCD in the morning"               |

  What is a BCD? Not `binary-coded decimal', I suppose.

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