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DISCUSSION 



CAMPBELL; When you study these native populations, in 

 Anaktuvuk Pass and Point Barrow, for example, don't you have 

 to consider the possibility of malnutrition? It seems to me I 

 have heard in the past that vitamins may have an influence on 

 viruses. 



BABBOTT: I think that is very important. It is a nonspecific 

 host characteristic which I neglected to bring in, but it is im- 

 portant. The reason I didn't bring it in was that it has been 

 very difficult to do detailed and sound studies on nutrition of 

 these people, particularly in recent years when their diet has 

 been undergoing such rapid change. Dr. Scott, of the Arctic 

 Health Research Center, I know, has worked on certain tj^Des 

 of anemias and on vitamin levels. I was not familiar with a 

 very extensive literature on this, and so I did not include it; 

 but it is important. 



CAMPBELL: Aren't Eskimos calcium deficient? 



BABBOTT : Not that I know of. Do you know anything about 

 that. Dr. Reinhard? 



REINHARD: Not in general, but there may be specific people 



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