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To: muawiyah

Africa is actually a not very good place for humans, and hasn’t been. That is where most human pathogens are found. That is where malaria is such a fact of life that sickle cell anemia is also a fact of life.


32 posted on 01/27/2011 5:15:52 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: allmendream
That is where malaria is such a fact of life that sickle cell anemia is also a fact of life.

It's carrying the sickle cell trait that increases survivability if you contract malaria.
36 posted on 01/27/2011 5:20:45 PM PST by aruanan
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