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"One theory is that the Western diet has made people more susceptible to developing allergies and other illnesses. A study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences compared the gut bacteria from 15 children in Florence, Italy, with gut bacteria in 14 children in a rural African village in Burkina Faso. They found that the variety of flora in these two groups was substantially different."
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"Keep the family cat indoors: that is the message from MassWildlife to residents in cities and towns around Boston after a recent spike in reports of fisher sightings."
links for 2010-08-05
I saw a programme a few years ago where a scientist who suffered from really bad hayfever infected himself with hookworm, and his hayfever almost disappeared.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3287733.stm
A bit more recently:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/feb/05/medicineandhealth.research
“How to cure your asthma or hayfever using hookworm – a practical guide” !!!
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/4/30/91945/8971
Heh. And I was talking with some vet friends and one said that in Australia, some aboriginal kids always had a runny nose, but never really had any other health issues or serious infections. We also thought it was the low level infection tempering the immune system.
Are we heading for a post-Pasteurian world?
I’ve been reading Heather Paxson’s “Microbiopolitics” an anthropological paper on raw cheeses.