[extropy-chat] Training the immune system

[BillK]

On 5/29/06, Martin Striz wrote:
>
> I don't know that Europeans are more resistant than Asians or
> Africans.  If Asians had colonized the Americas, then we might be
> talking about them.
>
> Plus, it's more than just genetics.  It's also environmental exposure.
>

The area of West Africa was known as 'The White Man's Grave' because
European colonists going there had a life expectancy of months only.
They died like flies until germs and quinine were discovered.

Any tropical country with various fever diseases and malaria was
probably similar.

BillK