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    Has anyone ever posted a poll to see where everyone on the forum was from? Seems I read somewhere that WG is virtually unheard of in South America and Africa. It would be interesting to a gross demographic by country or region of where everyone on the board was from. Certainly not scientific, but sitll interesting. Maybe that has already been done....

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    Marta did.
    When you click the link on top of this page, you can see the poll-results.
    Most people on this forum are from the USA, Australia, New Zealand and some from Europe (Norway, United Kingdom and The Netherlands).
    Whether WG is unknown in South America and Africa I don't know.

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    Yeap! That's what I was looking for. Seemed to me I had seen it somewhere and yes, it was starring me right in the face... I probably even responded. So much for my memory...

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    I think Andrew has some info on this as well. I suggest e-mailing or messaging him about it. I remember seeing a map of the world with countries in varying shades of one color to distinguish number of Weggies. But I think that is only number of Weggies on this site and there are thousands more around the world that are diagnosed already and thousands more that go undiagnosed year after year.

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    One reason there are so few cases of WG in South America and Africa is that it is a disease that predominantly affects Caucasians (white people).

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    Think about how poor South America and Africa are, many of them are dying of starvation and don't have a doctor. If they had a doctor they would not be checking Wegeners disease. So they are in that category of never getting the chance to be diagnosed.

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