From: moe@notmine.null   
      
   On 10/17/2016 9:28 PM, danny burstein wrote:   
   > The kind folk at City Journal, which, to be sure, has   
   > a bit of a political focus but usually, well often,   
   > umm, maybe sometimes..., tries to be factual, just ran   
   > a piece about the health status of refugees coming to the US.   
   >   
   > Most of it is fully legit talking about immunization   
   > rates, diseases endemic in Syria compared to the   
   > US, etc. But then there was this:   
   >   
   > "There are other potential public health concerns related to accepting   
   > large numbers of refugees. In 12 Middle Eastern nations, more than   
   > one-fifth of all Islamic weddings take place between first cousins.   
   > The overall rate of marriage among first cousins in Syria is over 35   
   > percent, and it approaches 40 percent in rural areas. This is leading   
   > to a perverse frequency of metabolic disorders, glucose-6-phosphate   
   > dehydrogenase deficiency, and blood diseases."   
      
   Yeah well, we've got the Amish and their genetic diseases. And at   
   least with refugees, there's a greater change of outbreeding taking   
   place in the future. Though I do recall seeing a couple of   
   African-American Amish children in a small Amish town in Indiana. At   
   the time, I assumed they'd been adopted.   
      
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