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Old Feb 28, 2014, 09:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic View Post
That's funny 30 years ago you couldn't go barefoot in the south without picking up hookworm
There's a really good This American Life about a guy who gets hookworms deliberately in order to cure his severe allergies. He had to go to Africa to get them. Maybe that's why more people seem to have allergies these days - not enough hookworms.

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