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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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 Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:36 pm Post subject: Improved hygiene caused an INCREASE in hepatitis A?! |
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http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2903031
Here's their reasoning:
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Improved hygiene leads to a spike in hepatitis A
Ironically, the institution cited the improved sanitary conditions of Korea as the key culprit. In the 1960s and 1970s when the country was recovering from the ruins of the Korean War, notions of public hygiene and health were not what they are today. As such, people gained natural immunity after being exposed to the disease in infancy. But hygiene has improved along with economic progress, an increasing number of people have their first contact with the virus as adults, according to the center. |
Do you think this is accurate? |
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Cstock
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| It's accurate and I'll tell you why, my child: When you put 12+million people crapping in a public area and they all get to wipe their hands on the same ruddy brick of soap and raggedy dish towel, some one's going to pass the Hep as well as fun bacteria that live in the bowel. |
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jdog2050
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Cstock wrote: |
| It's accurate and I'll tell you why, my child: When you put 12+million people crapping in a public area and they all get to wipe their hands on the same ruddy brick of soap and raggedy dish towel, some one's going to pass the Hep as well as fun bacteria that live in the bowel. |
exactly; it wasn't *hygiene* that caused the spike, but their ridiculous *notion* of hygiene; i.e., a barely lathering bar of soap and a plain-water washed towel. |
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Goku
Joined: 10 Dec 2008
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It's both.
It's a catch 22 where people don't want to go around sneezing into other people's faces or rubbing hands all over a shared urine towel at school...
But at the same time, our over sanatizing culture has rendered us with weak immune systems.
Humans lived thousands of years without soap, running water, or even baths.
The theory of the supergerm is common among scientists and a worry about our human species. Much like pesticides breed resistant insects, santiziers breed resistant germs. |
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