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- From: ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
- Subject: Re: English peas
- Message-ID: <WORDS-L%93010314453277@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 19:40:46 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: Message of Sun,
- 3 Jan 1993 00:59:00 EST from <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
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- On Sun, 3 Jan 1993 00:59:00 EST Blue eyes cryin' in the rain said:
- > about because sanitation improved in the West. As water became
- > cleaner, exposure to the polio virus became less frequent in the very
- > young; those infected as teens or young adults, rather than as
-
- I believe subsequent studies showed that it was much more common in the
- 'upper classes' in the US, and much less common in the 'slums' or 'lower
- classes', presumably for the very reasons you describe....and here we all
- were being reminded to be VERY careful about washing hands and such....
-
- > it was first introduced onto the island of Mauritius (if memory serves,
- a recent movie about doctors int he jungles of the amazon (sean connery
- and some woman) makes one of its points about bringing in western diseases
- to these people who have never been exposed and who die from common colds
- and such...along with a lot of stuff about rainforests and cancer cures and
- so on. interesting, but not a great flick....
-
- cyclops
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