Equal opportunity disease

[Guest guest]

Cystic fibrosis, as better medical care is being obtained in some parts

of the world, is being found increasingly in groups that were heretofore

not thought to have it; part of this came to light when the gene was dis

covered. Rather more common in the Mediterranean world and the

Middle East than we have been lead to believe. Moreover, as we in

termarry, partner up, move about the world, this very old gene sees its

possibilities in most any population, though, admittedly less in Japan.

Also, in medically underserved populations, the disease has been even

more often underdiagnosed than in the industrialized nations. I think we

must all prepare to be inclusive, as the gene itself is.

Love to all at cfparents,

n Rojas