"La Puce" wrote in message
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in fact I beleive that the more you live with pets the stronger
your immune system.

Indeed. It's believed that it was the European's close proximity to
domesticated animals in a farming environment back home that turned
them into immune carriers for the pathogens with which they infected
the more nomadic Native Americans Indians, to such devastating
effect. *

Although on the other hand, IIRR animals have also been the carriers
for the all the plague vectors and viruses responsible for the
most deadly pandemics in human beings.



michael adams


*Guns and Germs and Steel Jared Diamond.

** stretching a point, fortuitous immunity in a first generation
may have become a selective genetic trait.

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