https://twitter.com/LeavittAlone/status/1333072994147688450

  • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    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.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/05/hookworm-lowndes-county-alabama-water-waste-treatment-poverty

    These people are already in collapse

    • ultraviolet [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      That's really depressing and makes me even more pissed off at the smug libs who look down on these people.