Friday, June 07, 2002|
Central Auditory Processing Deficits 4:08:32 PM 
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I found this article on the evolution of infectious organisms through Eric Raymond's Blog. For those of us who read Genome, it will be exceptionally interesting, I think. The thesis is that many of those diseases we believe to be genetic (or to have other non-infectious cause) will turn out to be infectious in nature. When diseases have been present in human populations for many generations and still have a substantial negative impact on people's fitness," he says, "they are likely to have infectious causes. and Recently a team of pathologists at MCP-Hahnemann School of Medicine, in Philadelphia, found [a bacterium linked to coronary disease] in the diseased sections of the autopsied brains of patients who had had late-onset Alzheimer's disease: it was present in seventeen of nineteen Alzheimer's patients and in only one of nineteen controls. 2:06:35 PM
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