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genetic immunity

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As several specialists in tropical medicine have recently pointed out, claims that non-white people have inherited genetic immunity to yellow fever (so need not worry about the disease), do not fall on deaf ears.
Almost no African-Americans have the particular protective mutation investigated in the study, but scientists say that other forms of genetic immunity almost certainly exist in both African-Americans and whites.
 
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