Re: diseases and immunity

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In <31DF65BA.63A0@best.com> Joel and Lynn Gazis-Sax <gazissax@best.com>
writes:
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>We know that when a disease first arrives in a culture, it is
devastating.
The >effects are far worse on the first generation than it is on
subsequent generations. >Two examples: In the South Pacific, when
measles first arrived, it wiped out >90% of the population.

Do you have references for the above statement that "90% of the
population" of the "South Pacific" was "wiped out" by measles on its
arrival.

Paul Kekai Manansala

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