Hookworm, a disease of extreme poverty, is thriving in the US south. Why?

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Hookworm, a disease of extreme poverty, is thriving in the US south. Why?

Exclusive: in America, the world’s richest country, hookworm, a parasitic disease found in areas of extreme poverty, is rampant, the first study of its kind in modern times showsChildren playing feet away from open pools of raw sewage; drinking water pumped beside cracked

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[mastadge]

Not to trivialize the point of the article at all, but I think we might be surprised if we took fecal samples from more affluent populations, too. I suspect a very large number of people carry subclinical worm burdens without knowing it.