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Dan Fogelberg's ([info]llama_treats) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2008-11-28 18:25:00


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Entry tags:internet doctors, jiggawha?, schools, squid brains, university: now anyone can play!

Welcome to the "Least Intelligent Student Union in the Country"
The student council at Carleton University in Ottawa has made a shocking discovery*: Cystic Fibrosis only affects white men, and is therefore not an "inclusive enough" disease to raise money for. Needless to say, this causes a leeeetle backlash.

In response, the person who originally made the motion to remove CF from their charity list is "currently not able to live happily." How sad. :(

ETA: *And by "shocking", I mean "completely false".



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[info]beejium
2008-11-30 02:51 am UTC (link)
The post above gives the general gist of the how. Basically, it's believed that the reason CF exists in the numbers it does (when normally a genetic disease that, untreated, tends to kill the sufferer in childhood would be mostly removed from the gene pool) is that those people who were carriers for CF had resistance to cholera. So, the carriers both didn't get CF and survived the cholera epidemics... but they passed on the gene.

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[info]tofuknight
2008-11-30 03:03 am UTC (link)
Ah! Like sickle-cell anemia! Thank you!

(though the getting CF thing sucks, of course. D:)

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