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From: Kenneth Van Oost <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: "Smoking" Memes
> Hi Salice,
> Here is the data,
>
> > > I know, that some investigations were done in the area of the plague
and
> > > aids. There too, science found, specific genes blocking the
development
> > > of the pest and aids. I have to check my archives for more detail, if
> you
> > > want.
>
> << The investigator who did this is Stephen O' Brien.
>
> In 1347 the plague sweeped across Europe. Death rate, 100%.
> It disapeared and came than back again.
> A new strategy was launched in those days, quarantine. In fact that
> was a death sentence, because noone expected you to be alive after
> 40 days living with infected people.
> But some did.
>
> The village in which O' Brien did his investigations was Eyam in Derby-
> shire ( England).
> This village was hit very hard by the plague around 1630.
> Going through the records he and his than formed team found out that
> 433 people survived the plague.
> Those 433 were the half of the population, in those days more than
> a miracle.
>
> The first remark made by the team was, was it the plague !?
> After all, the plague has a lot of similarities with Anthrax ( what means
> Black). ( Maybe we should take this in consideration regarding what
> is happening in the US right now.)
> But if it should be anthrax, the cattle must have died, because the death-
> rate for cattle hit by antrax is 100%.
> ( Do we know that cattle died in the US !? It seems odd to me that
> people died of anthrax, where in most cases animals would face death.
> Is the US- government lieing !? I hope not !?)
>
> Inqueries showed that was not the case, it was indeed the plague which
> hit Eyam. Than they searched into the possibity that the difference in
> living circumstances would give reasons why people survived and others
> did not. This was negative too.
>
> O' Brien asked himself the question if those who survived had not a
> kind of biological characteristic by which they were protected. The
> gene which draw O' Briens attention was a mutated gene Delta 32.
> After further more investigations he found that still 14% of the de-
> cendents of those who survived were carriers of that gene.
> Futhermore, throughout the world ( Africa, South- America and
> Asia, that gene was non- existent, of course due to the fact that the
> plague never hit there).
>
> The team found out that throughout Europe 14% of all people were
> still carriers of that specific gene. What O' Brien did conclude:_
> that when the plague hit, at the same time a genetic mutation
> occured helping out people to survive.
> He called this that the mutation hit Europe like a splinterbomb !
> It seems that Delta 32 is a mysterious mechanism by which bacils
> cannot penetrate the human body.
> It means that if you have 2 copies of the gene, you won 't get ill at all.
> 1 copy, that you will get ill but won 't die.
> If you have no copy, you will die.
>
> O ' Brien, than turned to aids.
> He and his than more than expended team found out that the same
> gene works in the same way in aids too.
> The clue is now to imitate the working of Delta 32 in some kind of
> therapy.
>
>
> Pesonal view,
>
> IMO, we can pre- suppose that a kind of similar mechanism works
> upon our immune system, but on a neurological level.
> This idea, was is mine by the way, I already submitted to some, not
> list- mem(e)bers, scientists. They, one in particular was interested,
> but for a more efficient evolution I must work this idea further out.
> What I am still doing, by the way.
> So for a full draft, you have to wait, but it would be interesting to
> discuss this. Not the idea in its whole, just the possibility that such a
> mechanism would exist or not.
>
> Excuse me, but I ain 't gonna give that away, thought !
> I hope I helped you out with this dribblin ' bit....
>
> Regards,
>
> Kenneth
>
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