Mexico warns of diarrhea risk when visiting US
www.newsweek.com
Health officials issued a travel advisory following a spike of over 1,600 parasitic infections across 34 U.S. states.

A small recompense for decades of jokes at Mexico’s expense, eh?

  • quick_snail@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 个月前

    Were those latrines lined? Did they place them sufficiently far from rivers and ground water?

    I don’t think they understood much about disease vectors and germ theory, in general.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 个月前

      Pete Hegseth says germ theory is fake.

      The concept of bacteria didn’t appear until almost 800 years later. Romans used poop to fertilize fields, but did not treat it.

      • quick_snail@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        2 个月前

        And the guy who suggested germs exist (cadaver particles) was locked up in an insane institution, where he died.