Lemon12:
I guess yorubas are also genetically immune to Dirtiness , cultism , cowardice , laziness , brownroof-ness ?

As if no lassa case have be reported in yoruba states .

Up IPOB

imsuboi:


Very clean

IPOB forever

Smooyis:


Not at all. Just stating the obvious.

Beautiful lies in the eyes of beholder.
Nothing is obvious, it's obvious to you cos it your personal opinion.

bebe2:
Okk na,

Pls throw a trailer load of rats in each of the yoruba state's,

And let the Owambe begin

soroniyen

Lemon12:
I guess yorubas are also genetically immune to Dirtiness , cultism , cowardice , laziness , brownroof-ness ?

As if no lassa case have be reported in yoruba states .

is that all?what else?

May God heal all those whose hearts has become broken by this post.

AreaFada2:
If that is true it possibly means that at some point in the distant past, Yoruba people must have been exposed to Lassa virus. Perhaps even a Lassa epidemic.

Those who survived built immunity against it. The gene pool of resistant people gradually spread among the people.

However, immigrants from Benin empire, Idah, Benue, the North and other places intermarrying with Yoruba my have descendants with lesser or no immunity among current Yoruba people.

I wanted to chip that in. West Africans are more resistant to tropical diseases because of thousands of years of exposure to them. The Yoruba claim to have been city dwellers for thousands of years, infact from the beginning of time and must have seen the most terrible pestilence. Over a thousand years ago, Ijebu Eredo built a 70 feet deep rampant maybe twenty feet wide running for like 150 km. It is said to be the biggest structure built in precolonial Africa requiring more Earth shifted than the pyramid in Giza. What do you think their population was in the 10th century AD to be able to achieve that. A three storey building was identified in the forest undergrowth at Eredo as the palace, then barracks, shrines and temples were also identified. Where did all the people go. Nigerian population was not up to 15 million in 1850.

I believe the Yoruba were decimated, whole cities wiped off by epidemics in the past including Lassa fever, the survivors gave rise to the present Yoruba who are more resistant to the disease. The relative level of occurrence of the haplotype associated with the resistance is an indication of how the ancestors of those population were decimated by that disease relative to others. So the Yoruba were decimated around 50 percent more than the Esan by proportion. So maybe if 80 percent of Yoruba died, maybe 56 percent of Esan died from Lassa fever in the past.