I mean hookworm has returned to the South (a disease of extreme poverty) which they had thought had been eradicated in US for a long time
Children playing feet away from open pools of raw sewage; drinking water pumped beside cracked pipes of untreated waste; human faeces flushed back into kitchen sinks and bathtubs whenever the rains come; people testing positive for hookworm, an intestinal parasite that thrives on extreme poverty.
These are the findings of a new study into endemic tropical diseases, not in places usually associated with them in the developing world of sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, but in a corner of the richest nation on earth: Alabama.
I mean hookworm has returned to the South (a disease of extreme poverty) which they had thought had been eradicated in US for a long time
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/05/hookworm-lowndes-county-alabama-water-waste-treatment-poverty
These people are already in collapse
That's really depressing and makes me even more pissed off at the smug libs who look down on these people.