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Table 1
Australia Antigen in Non- Hogpitalized Populations
(from Blumberg et al,

47)

Population

AMERICAS
Eskimos

Indians, Athabascan

Indians, Cashinahua
Indians, Haida

Indians, Mexico
Indians, Quechua
Indians, Sioux
Negros
Whites

. AFRICA
Pare
Tristan da Cunha

Ghanese

ASTA
Japanese
Chinese
Taiwanese
Israelis
Jordanese

Filipinos
Filipinos

Vietnamese
EUROPE
Finns
Lapps & Finnlapps
Italians
Greeks
Portugese

Location

Alaska, U.S.A.
Alaska, U.S.A.
Peru
Canada
Mexico
Peru
S. Dakota, U.S.A.

394
204
89
338
252
102
130
607
896

Tanzania

120
42
95

Ga., Md., U.S.A.
Ga., Md., U.S.A.

Tristan da Cunha
Ghana

Osaka, Japan
U.S.A., Taiwan
Taiwan
Israel
Jordan
Cebu, P.I.
Manila, P.I.
Vietnam

Maoris

Melanesians
Micronesians
Polynesians
Polynesians

Total

301
100
23

340
40
764
197
128

No. Pos,

% Pos.

1
0
18

0.3
0
20.2

0

0

1
0
0
0
0

0.4
0
0
0
0

L

0.8

1
0
3
4
0
37
9
8

0.3
0
13.0
1.2
0
4.8
4.6
6.3

0
9

0
9.5

Finland
Finland
Ferara
Greece
Hawatli

924
127
101
857

1
0
0
15
1

0.1
0
0
1.8
2.2

Australia
New Zealand
New Guinea
Marshall Is.
Bora Bora
Hawaii

233
166
474
119
43

12
1
6
34
3
1

5.1
0
3.6
7.2
2.5
2.3

8,254

166

OCEANIA

Aborigines

No. Tested

44

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