Science Café – Why We Can (Sometimes) Get Along: Parasites, Pathogens, and Human Evolution – a Africa interest event taking place on 2017-07-10 19:00:00 in United States
Talk Science, Drink Beer
Join scientists from across the region for a lively discussion of science topics.
These events are FREE/no cover charge and open to the public.
A full menu and bar are available.
FEATURING:
Scott M. Williams Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CWRU
EVENT INFORMATION:
When people hear the words parasite and pathogen, the immediate reaction is to view them as hostile entities, seeking to advance their own existence at the expense of their host organisms such as humans. And yet some human populations have long co-existed with potential disease-causing microbes, suggesting that they co-evolved to arrive at some kind of benign co-existence.
A classic example of this is the pathogen Helicobacter pylori that can cause ulcers and gastric cancer. Many different strains exist throughout the world and there is evidence that populations that have lived with particular varieties of these pathogens for long periods of time have less severe forms of those diseases, and sometimes no disease at all, than those that did not. For example, if H. pylori strains from Africa infect people from the New World, then the Amerindians get much sicker than Africans infected with the same strain.
Event Sponsors
The Case Western Reserve chapter of Sigma Xi
WCPN ideastream
ACES+ program at Case Western Reserve University
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