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What is the significance of the five countries mentioned as compared to the
rest of the countries of the world?

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"Paul Jones" <Paul_Jones@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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Jim Fox <jimfox99@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> What is the significance of the five countries mentioned as compared to
the
> rest of the countries of the world?
    [snip]
> > estimated 350,000 with MS in the US, 110,000 in Germany, 85,000 in the
> > UK, 12,000 in Australia and 35,000 in Canada. You can find out more

Well, they're 5 of the 7 largest industrial economies in the world,
but I don't know why Italy and France have been omitted from the list
of G7.  What the 5 do have in common, and in counterposition to the
omitted 2, is that the native tongues of most of their citizens are
in the Germanic family of languages (with important minorities, such
as Spanish in the US and French in Canada, but minorities still),
while in France and Italy most citizens speak languages in the
Latin family (again with an important minority, German in Italy).
But how or why native language could correlate with Multiple
Sclerosis totally escapes me.

In bridge terms, I find the distinction even murkier.  There seems
to be little or no correlation between the inclusion/omission of
countries from the list, and bridge successes of their teams.


Alex