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From: vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn)
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Subject: Allergies
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Date: 27 Apr 88 04:36:55 GMT
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As spring settles in, and as I try to live with our new cat, I'm struck
by horrible thoughts about allergies, like: is it true that allergies
are essentially a flawed immune responses? are allergies increasing in
this population? are allergies as common in foreign coutries? is it
possible to have evidence about the prevalence of allergies going back
even twenty years, let alone twenty generations?

I have heard it suggested that in the modern age our immune systems are
deteriorating in general, and that this is not apparent because we've
only known about immune systems for a few decades.  Any thoughts?

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| Cliff Joslyn, Cybernetician at Large
| Systems Science, SUNY Binghamton, vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu
V All the world is biscuit shaped. . .

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| Cliff Joslyn, Cybernetician at Large
| Systems Science, SUNY Binghamton, vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu
V All the world is biscuit shaped. . .