Malaria, river disease blindness, hemorrhagic fevers, Ebola, tse tse fly, Dengue fever, Chagas fever, yellow fever, elephantiasis, snail fever, etc., etc., are all tropical diseases unknown in cooler climates.
And don't tell me AIDS began in Stockholm. Or that millions upon millions of HIV+ sufferers live in Scotland.
Many tropical diseases are caused by unsanitary conditions, unclean water and, most important, failure to adopt basic Anglo-Scottish-American discovered hygiene practices. Do you have any idea what Walter Reed did for the brown and black man?
Elmat has the flu!
Now we know why you make so many comments which are so utterly and completely unfounded in fact.
You need to read up on the theory of climactic determinism. Ask yourself why is it that most advances in the human condition occur away from the Equator, and why the most backward conditions occur near the Equator. Also read Guns, Germs and Steel. |
