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Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 07:42:38 EST
Subject: SARS thinking

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SARS, as flu, comes from Southern China a region where the ground is 
particularly poor in selenium. It seems that produce a deep imairement on the 
immune system and allows viruses to pass from animals to man. More than one 
billion years ago, it seems there was only one area with that peculiarity. 
Then a big continent broke and there was two such domains. 200 millions years 
ago the Pangea supercontinent broke and cut one of the two zone in two more 
pieces. So, now we have 3 low selenium domains: China, Congo in Africa and 
the Amazon  in South America.

When SARS will hit Congo and Amazon, it will encounter poor people with poor 
health and a strong selenium deficit. A new for more active of the illness 
could be produced here. This virus could too recombine with unknown local 
viruses and produce some new conditions. We have so 3 "military grade" 
bio-labs on Earth making anything out of control and nobody bother. Some 
selenium pills would close these "crazy-labs".... Surely they are more 
noxious than some gas drums in a far away potential oil state, but who'll 
take the job?

Y. Bozzonetti.

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