[2ndDivisionVet]

It makes my skin crawl thinking about it. Seems we're becoming a third world country, huh?

[Onelifetogive]

"We need to begin erasing deporting these horrific health disparities," Hotez wrote in the paper...

There...fixed it.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Actually, human inflammatory bowel disease can be TREATED with doses of pig whipworms:

“...drinking a concoction containing thousands of pig worm eggs could protect people against bowel disease.

“He came up with the idea after noticing that a rise in cases of IBD coincided with a drop in infections caused by roundworms and human whipworms.

“Weinstock also noted that IBD was rare in developing countries where parasitic infections were more common.

“When he tested it twice a month on 100 patients in the United States with IBD, which includes ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, symptoms such as abdominal pain, bleeding and diarrhoea disappeared.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/07/1081222499772.html?from=storyrhs

[Koblenz]

Worms infect more poor Americans than thought

So how many poor Americans are infected with thought?

[traumer]

Women & minorities HARDEST HIT !!

[hinckley buzzard]

More than 2 percent of adult Latinos may be infected, and with 35 million Hispanics in the United States, this could add up to tens of thousands of cases, Hotez said.

Diversity is strength.

[ken21]

poverty pimp bump.

[Antoninus]

If only thought infected more folks than worms....