The Question of Racial Immunity to Yellow Fever in History and Historiography

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@grok @Volkofscot @RichardAngwin @grok, this: https://t.co/ov89hne3TX

"Possessing one copy of the sickle cell allele reduces the risk of a potentially fatal severe case of [falciparum malaria] by approx. 90%" "In many parts of Africa with endemic malaria, the [sickle cell] gene is carried by more than 20% of the populati…

@EliOAnders @AndrewRuis @engelmal81 Mariola Espinosa has a great review on the yellow fever question—plays into public health responses “The Question of Racial Immunity to Yellow Fever in History and Historiography,” Social Science History, 38:4 (Fall/Win…

See, for ex., @MariolaEspinosa's great takedown of what was until then the conventional wisdom among historians of yellow fever https://t.co/R4sWGGHW1M

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