<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The children of cousins have a greater risk of contracting infectious diseases, a study has found. </div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Marriages between second cousins is common in some ethnic groupings, such as among Muslims in The Gambia.
<span style="font-weight: bold">In Britain the number of marriages between first and second cousins is unknown but is thought to be higher among those immigrant populations which fail to integrate fully</span>.
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who more likely fi married dem cousin than British royalty
an yet there is no mention of dem in the whole article
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> He said that it was possible that when the link was better understood, the offspring of cousins would be considered as a priority group when carrying out emergency vaccination programmes to stop the spread of diseases such as flu or bird flu.
Such a decision had the potential to cause an “almost insurmountable ethnic” dilemma because of the likelihood that racial groups would be affected disproportionately.
In the study, published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, researchers found a high incidence of tuberculosis and hepatitis B in The Gambia, where second-cousin marriages are common among Muslims. In Italy, where second-cousin marriages are rare, no link was identified.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Marriages between second cousins is common in some ethnic groupings, such as among Muslims in The Gambia.
<span style="font-weight: bold">In Britain the number of marriages between first and second cousins is unknown but is thought to be higher among those immigrant populations which fail to integrate fully</span>.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> He said that it was possible that when the link was better understood, the offspring of cousins would be considered as a priority group when carrying out emergency vaccination programmes to stop the spread of diseases such as flu or bird flu.
Such a decision had the potential to cause an “almost insurmountable ethnic” dilemma because of the likelihood that racial groups would be affected disproportionately.
In the study, published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, researchers found a high incidence of tuberculosis and hepatitis B in The Gambia, where second-cousin marriages are common among Muslims. In Italy, where second-cousin marriages are rare, no link was identified.
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