B_jeepguy2
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This is a fascinating topic and may well be the reason I never contracted it given my promiscuity (and heredity).
I think it would be an interesting debate were someone to begin a thread on this topic. jeepguy? Did you see the PBS special on the town in England where (according to some theories) an immunity was developed to HIV/AIDS during the Black Death (bubonic plague) of the fourteenth century?
There's also the man in San Francisco who's allowed himself to be INTENTIONALLY infected by the virus over fifteen times and never contracted it.
Again this would make a fascinating separate topic.
Yes, I saw the PBS special, the town in England is Eyam. Basicly if your ancestors survived the Black Death in Medeival Europe (there is still some question as to whether it was really bubonic plague or some other virus like ebola) you may very likely have this genetic mutation floating around in your DNA. The Delta 32 mutation is ONLY found in people of European descent.
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