"This is a clearcut example of how certain bloodtypes can protect one from viral infections."

I did not declare malaria a virus but point out that this serves as an example how bloodtype can protect one from viral infections. Obviously I didn't make myself clear - though I use enough words to make my posts long enough to tick off Lindy and Raoul. Malaria, while not a virus, acts like one as the malaria parasites reproduce and function in much the same manner as a viral infection. When different hemoglobin interacts it serves as a sort of built-in resistance. A virus attempts to reproduce in the cells and the blood stream is the primary tool for carrying the virus to other parts of the body, just like the malarial parasites, so it is natural to assume that reproduction of viral infections is facilitated by certain blood groups while inhibited by others. Simple chemistry in action.


"If the SARS coronavirus is an antigen which might go unnoticed and completely removed by antibodies without incident in one population yet in another cause serious atypical pneumonia "

Which is not the case. Nothing supports this claim. At all- and to assume this claim is true would be to re-arrange everything known about genetics: Which is fine- but in general, if you are not an idiot, you don't throw away years of careful experimental data and supported hypothesies in favor of a single unsupported, observationally contradicted, empirically unsupportable and obviously flawed hypothesis.

As you might say, says you. ;-)

Obviously, there is evidence that the population reacts very differently to the SARS coronavirus. Some folks end up deathly ill and die while others simply recover from a tough flu-like sickness - like the supercarrier who went around infecting everyone.

If you want to believe that everyone and every race is equally infected by SARS - than why has it been so downplayed, to the point of almost total ignoring, in heavily caucasoid communities and regions? Obviously the threat risk is highest with Asiatics - as the basic global statistics provide evidence to support.

Only in communities like Toronto with huge Chinese populations did SARS make an appreciable appearance. Any other plague or viral infection infecting so many people would have surely spread like wildfire to regions like New York and Los Angeles? Especially considering the virus did not require direct contact, sexual contact or fluid contact to acquire?! Why it should have made AIDS appear like it is rarer than Tourette's syndrome!

Control by the CDC & WHO? HA HA HA! Get serious! They barely even know how its being spread and couldn't even protect hospital personnel sufficiently! Some other hand of providence has protected the world from this plague and it's nothing thats been done to contain the illness by man, since I don't believe in Gods or prayers - that leaves chemistry.

And why should it require a rearranging of genetic knowledge? Are you saying it is impossible for a disease to infect certain blood types and not others? So little is known it would be ridiculous to make such an assumption and evidence points to simple chemical-based blood resistance in the form of antibodies - which are really just chemical counteragents. Each of us has unique blood - no two bloodtypes are identical and so we all have unique levels of resistance to various diseases. That certain alleles afford different levels of protection from certain illnesses seems to be very logical.

If this be idiocy - well I'll make the most of it.

SDAI-Tech1

PS
Thank goodness the world has you to provide an antibody for the Tech-antigen and all conservative-antigens everywhere. Clearly you do have at least two brain cells to rub together. When the next democratic president is elected surely you'll receive a congressional medal of honor for your valiant efforts on behalf of the cause and the welfare of the collective body.

If you don't want to continue the thread that's fine...bye bye. It's buried now anyway and we would all much rather read the latest Iraq casualties Don is hoping for to post for his daily updates.

;-)